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Malnutrition stalks Congo’s overcrowded prisons

Malnutrition stalks Congo’s overcrowded prisons

ERIKAS MWISI KAMBALE FRIENDS of 18-year-old Muno Lembissa said he died in prison from sorrow. The jail's director said malnutrition contributed to his demise, because he did not have visitors to bring in meals to feed him. The teenager is one of dozens of inmates to die this year in the main prison in Bunia, in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where, like the rest of the country, conditions are overcrowded and there is not enough food to go around. Lembissa had been convicted of rape and sentenced to a year in jail. "The sentence really upset him and as…
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