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    <periodOfReport>2025-12-16</periodOfReport>

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    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0001541157</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>Akari Therapeutics Plc</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>AKTX</issuerTradingSymbol>
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            <rptOwnerCik>0002093620</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>Farag Kameel D.</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>C/O AKARI THERAPEUTICS PLC</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2>401 EAST JACKSON STREET, SUITE 3300</rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>TAMPA</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>FL</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>33602</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
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            <isDirector>0</isDirector>
            <isOfficer>1</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>0</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
            <officerTitle>Interim CFO</officerTitle>
            <otherText></otherText>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

    <aff10b5One>0</aff10b5One>

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                <value>0.3883</value>
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                <value>2025-12-16</value>
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                <transactionCode>P</transactionCode>
                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
            </transactionCoding>
            <transactionTimeliness></transactionTimeliness>
            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>24745</value>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <footnoteId id="F4"/>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
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            </ownershipNature>
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            <securityTitle>
                <value>Pre-Funded Warrants to purchase ADRs</value>
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                <footnoteId id="F2"/>
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                <transactionPricePerShare>
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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Each American Depositary Share (&quot;ADS&quot;) represents 2,000 Ordinary Shares with a par value of $0.000000005 per Ordinary Share of the Issuer.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">On December 16, 2025, the Reporting Person acquired (i) unregistered pre-funded warrants to purchase up to 24,745 ADSs (the &quot;PIPE PFWs&quot; and ) and (ii) accompanying Series G Warrants to purchase up to 24,745 ADSs (the &quot;Series G Warrants&quot;), at a combined purchase price of $0.4041 per PIPE PFW and Series G Warrant in a private placement transaction pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">The Series G Warrants and the PIPE PFWs shall be exercisable upon shareholder approval, with the Series G Warrants having a five-year term from such approval, and the Private Placement Unregistered Warrants remaining exercisable until fully exercised.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">The combined purchase price per one PIPE PFW and accompanying PIPE Series G Warrant was $0.4041.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F5">Conversion Exercise Price of Security is $0.00001</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Abizer Gaslightwala, as Attorney-in-Fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2025-12-18</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
