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On 27 January, over 100 female prisoners were raped and then burnt to death during a mass jailbreak at Munzenze Prison in Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Their assailants had ...

On 27 January, over 100 female prisoners were raped and then burnt to death during a mass jailbreak at Munzenze Prison in Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

In January 2025, the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels stormed into Congo and took over the key city of Goma. ... DRC saw of its most violent jailbreaks at the Munzenze prison.

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 ...

Pascaline, 22, recall di words of her rapist for one prison for Goma, di largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, ... Im be di second man to rape her for Munzenze prison.

Pascaline, 22, recalls the words of her rapist at a prison in Goma, ... He was the second man to rape her at Munzenze prison. The first attack was so violent that she passed out.

Pascaline, 22, recall di words of her rapist for one prison for Goma, di largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, ... Im be di second man to rape her for Munzenze prison.

At the time, one of the worst reported atrocities of the conflict took place – when more than 150 women prisoners and their children were killed in Munzenze Prison - after an intense fire broke out.

"He told me that if I tried to escape, he would kill me." Pascaline, 22, recalls the words of her rapist at a prison in Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in the early ...

Horrific scenes saw over 160 women raped and children left dead in a fire after the prison break at Munzenze near Goma last Monday came amid an offensive by M23 rebels backed by Rwanda.

As rebels entered the city, Goma’s Munzenze prison became a centre of the violence. It was set on fire, prisoners were burnt alive – and thousands escaped. The UN says female prisoners were ...