1 day ago · Hundreds of women inmates in Munzenze prison of Congo's Goma were reportedly burnt alive after being raped during the chaos after Rwanda-backed rebel groups entered the Congolese city last week ...

1 day ago · More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according to the UN. Hundreds of prisoners broke out of Munzenze prison last ...

8 hours ago · Prisoners seen fleeing as smoke rises above Munzenze prison in Goma. via X. Vivian Van de Perre, the United Nations’ representative for the DRC, said in a briefing from Goma on Wednesday that ...

1 day ago · Further details regarding the jailbreak at Munzenze prison in the city of Goma were not immediately clear. The eastern Congolese city has been seized by the Rwanda-backed militant group M23.

12 hours ago · The escape occurred last Monday when fighters from the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group launched an attack on the city, leading to chaos inside Munzenze prison. According to an internal UN document seen by the BBC, between 165 and 167 women were sexually assaulted by male inmates before being killed in a fire set by the prisoners.

1 day ago · As violence surges in Congo over a decade-long political crisis, it has been reported that hundreds of women were raped and then burnt alive in the Munzenze Prison in the city of Goma, by the rebels. The Guardian quoted a senior United Nations official, Vivan Van de Perre as saying, “There was a major prison breakout of 4,000 escaped prisoners.

1 day ago · Masses of inmates escaped Goma’s Munzenze prison last Monday as M23 rebels took over the city - with female prisoners reportedly attacked in their wing before it was set on fire

1 day ago · According to a senior UN official, the female inmates were assaulted inside the women’s wing of Goma’s Munzenze prison during a mass jailbreak. Vivian van de Perre, deputy head of the UN peacekeeping force based in Goma, reported that while several thousand male prisoners managed to escape, the section housing women was deliberately set on ...

16 hours ago · Des centaines de prisonniers se sont évadés de la prison de Munzenze lundi dernier, après que les combattants du groupe rebelle M23 ont commencé à s'emparer de la ville.

Oct 27, 2023 · According to an official source, who wished to remain anonymous, 14 inmates at Munzenze prison died in September and eight in October. Built in the 1950s to accommodate 350 inmates, Goma's...