More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

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 ...

After fighters from the M23 rebel group advanced toward the eastern city of Goma the U.N. said inmates at the Muzenze prison took advantage of the chaos and started to escape on Jan. 27.

The next morning, January 27, saw prisoners break down the doors of their cells and set fires at Goma prison, near the city's airport. Many inmates were stuck inside the burning building.

"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 ...

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 ...

Prior to the incident, Munzenze Central Prison housed around 4,400 inmates, well beyond its capacity. On Tuesday it emerged that 2,000 bodies were still awaiting burial in Goma after the M23 ...

The female inmates were attacked in their wing inside Goma’s Munzenze prison during a mass jailbreak, UN peacekeeping chief Vivian van de Perre said. Tens of thousands of residents in eastern ...