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‘We don’t have the budget to feed all the inmates’: A rise in deaths in DR Congo prisons

Overcrowding, lack of food, disease … In September alone, 14 inmates died in the main prison in Goma, the capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Images of inmates crammed into tents and photos of bodies being removed leaked onto social networks in mid-October. Our Observers told us about the alarming living conditions in this prison, which holds ten times more prisoners than its intended capacity.

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