Daily Mail Prisoners escape as Goma's Munzenze prison engulfed in flames Posted: 5 February 2025 | Last updated: 5 February 2025 Women were raped and then burnt alive after Rwandan-backed rebels ...

Goma was falling. The women did not seem to ... The full story of what happened in Munzenze Prison may never be known. It seems those in power are in no rush to find out. Sifa and the other ...

More than 4,400 inmates escaped from Munzenze Central Prison in Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in eastern DR Congo, on Monday, January 27, after M23 rebel group captured the city.

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 ...

They all died afterwards.” 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 ...

Masses of inmates escaped Goma’s Munzenze prison last Monday as M23 rebels took over, with female prisoners reportedly attacked in their wing amid the chaos. Deputy head of the UN peacekeeping ...

The incident occurred in the Congolese city of Goma after M23 rebels captured the urban centre in a lightning raid last week. The M23 fighters freed male prisoners at the Munzenze prison ...

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 ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels last week captured regional capital Goma in an anarchic and mineral-rich part of Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds of women inmates in Munzenze prison of Congo's Goma ...

Hundreds of Congolese women were raped and burnt alive after Rwandan-backed militants raided a prison. The female inmates were attacked in their wing inside Goma’s Munzenze prison during a mass ...