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UN Says Dozens Burnt Alive During Goma Munzenze Prison Jailbreak In Congo
https://osazuwaakonedo.news/un-says-dozens-burnt-alive-during-goma-munzenze-prison-jailbreak-in-congo/08/02/2025/
#Issues #Congo #DRC #EAC #Goma #Kinshasa #Kivu #Masisi #Munzenze #SouthAfrica #Tshisekede #UN ©February 8th, 2025 ®February 8, 2025 11:53 pm United Nations, UN says dozens of inmates with more than 150 female prisoners alongside their babies were burnt alive on January 27, 2025 when some detainees at Munzenze prison in Goma set fire on the facility to escape after M23 advanced to takeover the city, forcing prison guards to flee and shot dead many inmates. #OsazuwaAkonedo
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United Nations us say dozens of inmates
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with more than 150 female prisoners
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alongside their babies were burnt alive
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on January 27 2025 when some detes at
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mugan prison in gumas set fire on the
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facility to escape after M23 Advanced to
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take over the city forcing prison guards
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to flee and shot dead many inmates
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videos posted online by local media
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showed un staff recovering some of the
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bodies bmed Beyond Rec nition at the
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female cells one of the relatives of the
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bond inmat said her mother was committed
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to the prison 2 years ago for stealing
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she was able to recognize her mother's
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body saying her mother had braded her
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before the prison break adding that the
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baby her mother had while inside the
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prison also died in The Infernal one of
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the female prisoners who sustained
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injuries from The Infernal wi speaking
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from her hospital bed said that there
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were over
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124 babies at the M prison facility
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explaining that most of them were asleep
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when the fire came falling on them
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including the babies it was also
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gathered that some of the female
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prisoners among the more than 150
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persons born alive during the incident
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were Reed by the escaping male detainees
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more than 4,000 detainees escaped as the
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M23 Rebel Alliance battled with koles
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forces over control of the city C NN
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correspondent Salma abdalaziz
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reported a senior un official in the
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Democratic Republic of Congo said on
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Wednesday that nearly 3,000 people were
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killed in the fighting between M23
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militants and the congales national Army
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over control of the GMA eastern city
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Vivian van Perry the deputy head of the
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United Nations mission in the DRC
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reportedly told reporters in a video
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call from GMA that un teams are activ
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helping the M23 to collect the debt from
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the city streets she said that so far
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2,000 bodies have been retrieved and 900
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others are in hospital Ms CNN reported
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that the UN Human Rights office
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spokesperson C mango said that most of
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the 165 female prisoners who were Reed
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by escaping male inmates died in the
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fire CNN added that between 9 and 13
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female inmates all of whom had also been
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Reed survived the blaze mango added
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citing a Judicial Source in the DRC we
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did not independently verify the
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judicial officials report ourselves but
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we do consider his account to be
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credible mango told CNN Thursday the
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male inmates some of whom were killed by
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prison guards plotted a mass escape on
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January 27th as the M23 Rebel Alli iance
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battled with koles forces in gumma over
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control of the city the UN sponsored
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radio Okapi reported Monday local
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observers said as Rebels entered the
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city gas munen prison became a center of
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the violence it was set on fire
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prisoners were burned alive and
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thousands escaped meanwhile thousands of
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GMA City residents attend a Thursday
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rally organized by M23 Rebels who sought
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to reassure them of safy under their
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Administration as they try to show up
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public support amid growing
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International pressure they held of M23
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Rebels General conell Naga ordered the
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citizens of GMA City to clean up the
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city so as to attract tourists he added
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that GMA will be the capital city of the
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new Congo nation in a media interview
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General conell nanga voiced strong
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dissatisfaction after the East African
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Community EAC and Southern African
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development Community sadc denied his
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request to attend peace talks in the
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Salam nanga insists that without M23
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representation decisions made at the
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conference will be effective nanga was
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once a key alley of President Tish nanga
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previously served as the president of
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the Congo independent National electoral
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commission between 2015 and
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2021 he declared the Congo president
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phelix t a winner of the 2018
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presidential election and later had
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dispute with President TI over the
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election results with allegations of
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election manipulation in favor of TI and
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therea formed a coalition of Rebel
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groups in North K and the Eastern DRC
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known as The Alliance FL Congo AFC which
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includes the M23 movement video footage
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showed some Battle Scars remained with
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bodies of koles soldiers yet to be
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recovered later the streets of GMA
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especially the road leading to the
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airport cgt and Africa in an exclusive
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footage reported the aftermath of the
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battle in gomma with abandoned weapons
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and a blocked airport as M23 Rebels
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Titan control still yet to be reopened
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the remains of the South Africa soldiers
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killed in GMA have been transported from
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gomma across the Rwanda DRC border local
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media reported that the cross the L
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Onish border post during the week with
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the United Nations facilitating the
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transportation The Remains were
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thereafter repatriated to South Africa
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by a from Uganda it would be recalled we
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had reported that in a bitter reaction
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to the statement credited to South
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Africa president sirial Rosa over the
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killing of 13 sa soldiers in GMA by M23
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Rebels Rwanda president Paul KAG has
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talked off over president rusa
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description of Rwanda Defense Force rdf
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as a militia group working with M23 and
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the sa president's threat raed and
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commented on President sir ramusa at
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social media post published accused
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South Africa of being a party in the
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conflict in the Democratic Republic of
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Congo who always launch offensive
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operations against M23 Rebels only
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trying to manipulate the public by those
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falsely claiming to be a peacekeeper in
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a war the sa has joined hands to
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escalate this as hundreds of Romanian
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mercenaries contracted to fight against
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M23 Rebel or surrendered to M23 rebels
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in the presence of the Rebel
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spokesperson Willie Anga inuma who was
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seen in videos warning and cautioning
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the Romanians never to come to Congo to
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fight against them before the Romanians
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were transported to Rwanda for further
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assistance to their country we had
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reported that over 1,200 men of the
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Armed Forces of Democratic Republic of
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Congo have SED or surrendered gumma the
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country's largest city to M23 Rebels
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with DRC military uniforms flooding the
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streets after the P of the army attires
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and took Refuge at UN peacekeeping
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military base leaving South Africa
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soldiers to continue to fight on but
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South Africa military formation in Congo
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in a statement denying that its men did
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not surrender to M23 Rebels insisting
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that the White Flag hoer by one of his
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soldiers during heavy gun battle with
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the rebels was noral military tradition
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for both sides to cease fire to enable
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the South Africa troops passage to
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receive medical supply and as well give
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room to the M23 Rebels the opportunity
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to rescue their men injured in front of
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the South African military base near
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Guma airport this as thousands of pro
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government protesters attacked and B
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some portions of us French Kenya Uganda
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Rwanda and other foreign embassies in
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kinasa we previously had reported that
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thousands of prisoners at ment prison
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facility in gumma the capital city of
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North kibo province in the Democratic
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Republic of Congo may have set
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themselves free after M2 3 Rebels took
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control of GMA early morning hours with
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videos posted online showing civilians
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flooding back to GMA and welcoming the
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M23 rebels in AR rousing manner earlier
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same day we also reported that one of
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the most troubled countries in Africa
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Democratic Republic of Congo government
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bured civilian residents in the country
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to flood streets on Monday the 27th of
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January 2025 just as M23 Rebels are now
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in control of GMA after killing the
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Congolese military commander over nine
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South Africa soldiers a total of 12 un
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peacekeepers forcing other congales
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soldiers to surrender their weapons
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before the 300 a.m. Monday 27 2025
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deadline set we had earlier in January
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2025 reported that M23 rebels in the
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Democratic Republic of Congo early this
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year Advanced and since the town of
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maissi s perial the conges government
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sent 172 death row prisoners to
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execution as with 102 already confirmed
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executed while the government kept mom
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on the third bch of 70 prisoners
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including the May 19 2024 37 cou
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plotters who were convicted and
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sentenced to death in September 2024
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just as the country Minister of Justice
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constant mut Mal threaten journalists
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with death penalty if they relate the
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activities of armed group he described
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as Rwanda Army and its M23 auxiliaries
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