African leaders must commit to ending the violence, which requires focusing attention on justice reform and survivor-led interventions. On 27 January, over 100 female prisoners were raped and then ...

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 ...

In a harrowing turn of events, the recent jailbreak at the Munzenze prison in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has resulted in widespread sexual violence and loss of life. As M23 rebels ...

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 ...

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 ...

Warning: The following article contains disturbing content, including accounts of rape, from the outset. “He threatened to kill me if I attempted to escape.” Pascaline, 22, remembers the chilling ...

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He was the second man to rape her at Munzenze prison. The first attack was so violent that she passed out. Her attackers came over the wall from the men's block right next door called "Safina", ...

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.

At Goma’s Munzenze prison, during a mass jailbreak of 4 000 male prisoners, hundreds of women inmates were raped and burned alive in their wing. Two thousand bodies still await burial in Goma.

On the night following the takeover of Goma, prisoners from the city’s Munzenze prison escaped, reportedly raping at least 165 female prisoners before burning them alive.

The female inmates were attacked in their wing inside Goma’s Munzenze prison during a mass jailbreak, according to a senior UN official. Advertisment. According to a UN Report, a mass jailbreak in the ...