At least 153 women are believed to have died and as many as 132 were said to have been burned to death as some 4,000 male inmates broke out of the Munzenze prison in Goma during an assault on the ...

By the end of the month, DRC saw of its most violent jailbreaks at the Munzenze prison. Around 4,000 inmates broke out of the prison, but not before raping over 100 female prisoners and setting ...

Following his tour of Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu in eastern DR Congo, Alain Destexhe, a former Belgian senator, said that he found the city to be peaceful as inhabitants went about ...

Trigger warning – This article discusses themes of sexual violence, war, and abuse. In a harrowing turn of events, the recent jailbreak at the Munzenze prison in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo ...

United Nations, UN says dozens of inmates with more than 150 female prisoners alongside their babies were burnt alive on January 27, 2025 when some detainees at Munzenze prison in Goma set fire on the ...

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A pungent smell of detergent and rotten food hits me as we walk through this enormous high-security prison. Inmates press themselves up against the bars to look at us. There are no smiles ...