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Speaker 1: United Nations u L says dozens of inmates, with more

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than one hundred and fifty female prisoners alongside their babies,

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were burnt alive. On January twenty seven, twenty twenty five,

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winsome detenees at Monzenzei Prison in Goma’s set fire on

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the facility to escape after m twenty three advanced to

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take over the city, force and prison guards to flee

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and shot their many inmates. Videos posted online by local

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media showed you and staff recovering some of the bodies

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bond beyond recognition at the female cells. One of the

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relatives of the bond inmates said her mother was committed

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to the prison two years ago for stealing. She was

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able to recognize her mother’s body, saying her mother had

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braided her before the prison break. Added that the webby

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her mother had while inside the prison also died in

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the inferno. One of the female prisoners who sustained injuries

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from the inferno, while speaking from her hospital bed, said

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that there were over one hundred and twenty four babies

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at the Mountnseai prison facility, explaining that most of them

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were asleep when the fire came falling on them, including

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the babies. It was also gathered that some of the

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female prisoners among the more than one hundred and fifty

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percents burned alive during the incident, were rapped by the

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escaping male detenees. More than four thousand detenees escaped as

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the M twenty three rebel alliance battled with Congoleese forces

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over control of the city. CNN correspondent somewhere at the

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Lazies reported a senior UN official in the Democratic Republic

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of Congo said on Wednesday that nearly three thousand people

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were killed in the fighting between M twenty three militants

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and the Congolesee National Army over control of the Goma

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eastern city. Vivian van de Perry, the Deputy held of

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the United Nations Mission in the DRC, reportedly told reporters

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in a video call from Goma that UN teams are

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actively helping the M twenty three to collect the debt

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from the city’s streets. She said that so far, two

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thousand bodies have been retrieved and nine hundred others are

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in hospital. Bogues CNN reported that the UN Human Rights

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Office spokesperson see If Macganga said that most of the

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one hundred and sixty five female prisoners who were repped

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by escaping male inmates, died in the fire. CNN added

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that between nine and thirteen female inmates, all of whom

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had also been repped, survived the blaze. Magango added, citing

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a judicial source in the DRC, we did not independently

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verify the judicial officials report ourselves, but we do consider

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his account to be credible, Maganga told CNN Thursday. The

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male inmates, some of whom were killed by prison guards,

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plotted a mass escape on January twenty seventh, as the

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M twenty three rebel Allia battled with Congolese forces in

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Goma over control of the city. The U N sponsored

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Radio Okapi reported Monday. Local observers said as rebels entered

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the city, Goma’s Monzenze Prison became a center of the violence.

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It was set on fire, prisoners were burnt alive and

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thousands es kept. Meanwhile, thousands of Goma city residents attend

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a Thursday rally organized by M twenty three rebels who

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sold to re assure them of safty under their administration.

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As the try to show off public support amid growing

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international praise, show they heard of m twenty three rebels.

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General Konneli Nanga ordered the citizens of Goma City to

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clean up the city soul as to attract tourists. He

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added that Goma will be the capital city of the

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new Congo Nation. In a media interview, General Khaneli Nanga

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voiced strong dissatisfaction after the East African Community AC and

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Southern African Development Community SADEC the nineties requests to attend

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peace talks in that s Salam. Nanga insists that without

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M twenty three representation, decijuns met at the conference will

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be effective. Nanga was once a key alley of President

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Tichi secad Day. Nanga previously served as the president of

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the Congo Independent National Electoral Commission between twenty fifteen and

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twenty twenty one. He declared the Congo President Phelix Tiachi

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second day winner of the twenty eighteen presidential election and

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later had dispute with President Tichi Secaday over the election results,

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with allegations of election manipulation in flavor of Tiachi. Secrety

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and the ALTA formed a coalition of rebel groups in

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North Kivu and the Eastern DLC known as the Alliance

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Full of Congo AFC, which includes the M twenty three movement.

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Video footage showed some battle scars remained, with bodies of

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Congolese soldiers here to be recovered later. The streets of Goma,

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especially the road leading to the airport CJT and Africa

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in an exclusive footage, reported the aftermaths of the battle

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in Goma, with abandoned weapons and a blocked airport as

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M twenty three rebels titled control still yet to be reopened.

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The remains of the South Africa soldiers killed in Goma

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have been transported from Goma across the Rwanda DRC border.

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Local media reported that the cross the lach on each

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border post during the week, with the United Nations facilitating

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the transportation. The remains were thereafter repatriated to South Africa

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by air from Uganda. It would be recalled. We had

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reported that, in a bitter reaction to the statement credited

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to South Africa President Syria Ramafosa over the killing of

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thirteen ESS soldiers in Goma by M twenty three rebels,

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Rwanda President Paul Cadaba has topped off over President Ramafosa

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description of Rwanda Defense force early efforts all Intiago working

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with M twenty three and the ESA president threat racial

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and commented on President Siri Ramafossa at Social Vinia Post

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published acqulled South Africa of being a party in the

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conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo who always launched

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offensive operations against M twenty three rebels, only trying to

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manipulate the public by those falseenly claiming to be a

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peacekeeper in the ward. The ESA has joined hands to

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escalate this as hundreds of Romanian marcenaries contracted to fight

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against M twenty three rebels ceded or surrendered to M

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twenty three rebels in the presence of the rebels spokesperson

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Willi Anguma in Guma, who was seen in videos warning

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and cautioning the Romanians never to come to Congo to

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fight against them. Before the Romanians were transported to Rumanda

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for further assistance to their country, we had reported that

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over one thousand, two hundred men of the armed Forces

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of Democratic Republic of Congo have seded or surrendered Guma,

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the country’s largest city, to M twenty three rebels, with

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DS military uniforms flooding the streets after of the army

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attacks and took refuge at unpeace keeping military based living

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South Africa soldiers to continue to fight on but South

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African Military formationed in Congo in a statement denying that

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its men did not surrender to M twenty three rebels,

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insisting that the white flag housted by one of his

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soldiers during heavy gun battle with the rebels was normal

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military tradition for both sides to cease fire to enable

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the South Africa troops passage to receive medical supply and

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as well give room to the M twenty three rebels

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the opportunity to rescue their men injured in front of

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the South African military based near Gumba Airport. This as

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thousands of pro government protesters attacked and won some portions

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of US, French, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and other foreign embassies

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in Kishasa. We previously had reported that thousands of prisoners

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at mon Sanai prison facility in Guma, the capital city

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of North Kivu Province is the Democratic Republic of Congo,

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may have set themselves free after M twenty three r

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rebels took control of Gma early morning hours, with videos

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posted online showing civilians flooding back to Goma and welcoming

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the M twenty three rebels in a rousing manner. Earlier

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seven day we also reported that one of the most

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troubled countries in Africa, Democratic Republic of Congong, government burned

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civilian residents in the country to flood streets on Monday

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the twenty seventh of January twenty twenty five, just as

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M twenty three rebels are now in control of Goma

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after killing the Congolese military commander over nine South Africa

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soldiers a total of twelve UN peacekeepers, forcing other Congolese

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soldiers to surrender their weapons before the three am Boonday

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twenty seven, twenty twenty five deadline set. We had earlier

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in January twenty twenty five reported that M twenty three

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rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo early this year

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advanced and since the town of Massisi. Same period, the

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Congolese government sent one hundred and seventy two death row

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prisoners to executioners, with one hundred and two already confirmed executed,

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while the government kept more on the third batch of

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seventy prisoners, including the May nineteen, twenty twenty four thirty

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seven coup plotters who were convicted and sentenced to death

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in September twenty twenty four, just as the country Minister

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of Justice, Constant Mutember, threatened journalists with death penalty in

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to relate the activities of armed groupie described as Rwanda

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Army and its M twenty three auxiliaries cours as one

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Hondreddy Greendale. You bring me in a mortgage is a

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mere