Authorities in Congo say 600 prisoners in the country's main prison have been freed as part of a process aimed at ...

Congolese authorities were warned of a situation “on the verge of explosion” at the notorious Makala prison, which witnessed ...

Congolese authorities were warned of a situation "on the verge of explosion" at the notorious Makala prison, which witnessed a deadly riot last week when inmates forced open locked wings, set fires ...

Inmates at the overcrowded Makala prison had sought to escape their suffocating cells after water and power went out. At ...

In the early hours of 2 September, the unrest at Makala resulted in at least 131 deaths and over 260 cases of sexual assault. The riot saw inmates breaking into various sections of the Kinshasa ...

An internal U.N. report revealed that over 260 female inmates were sexually assaulted during a failed escape attempt from Makala Central Prison in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. At least 129 ...

In attempting to describe Makala Prison - the scene of a deadly and failed breakout this week in the Democratic Republic of Congo - two people who have been inside used the exact same word: ...

More than 260 female inmates were sexually assaulted during an attempted mass escape from Democratic Republic of Congo's Makala Central Prison this month, an internal U.N. report reviewed by Reuters ...