[citation needed] In 1998, Malanga moved to Salt Lake City, Utah in the United States as a political refugee with asylum status.
[4] Malanga joined the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) program by the United States Armed Forces.
[citation needed] These projects included creating and maintaining water purification and bottling plants and several mining operations.
[3] In 2011 Malanga attended a general assembly meeting of all political opposition leaders to select a candidate to challenge the then President Joseph Kabila.
[citation needed] When the general assembly proved to be indecisive, Malanga decided to run in the parliamentary election as an independent opposition candidate.
[12] Malanga campaigned amid the Congolese diaspora in the United States, Europe and South Africa in preparation for the next round of national elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
[13] On 29 April 2017 at the basilica Santo Spirito in Sassia in Rome, Malanga received the rank of knight of the order of Saints Peter and Paul.
[22] The New Zaire Government in Exile maintains a website where it details plans including creating business opportunities and reforming Congo's security services.
[20][dead link] Photos on Facebook and the website show Malanga meeting then-senior American Republican representatives Rob Bishop and Peter King.
[22] A DRC army spokesmen Sylvain Ekenge claimed that Malanga and the New Zaire Government in Exile had previously planned a coup in 2017 but that it was aborted in its early stages.
[25] Due to the ability of the plotters to easily smuggle arms and ammunition into the DRC, as well as their ease at accessing important government buildings, the Lutte pour le changement assessed that Congolese intelligence was either involved in the coup attempt, or utterly inept.
[18][21] The coup came during a crisis in sitting president Félix Tshisekedi's Union for Democracy and Social Progress party failing to form a governing coalition and naming a speaker of parliament.