Overcrowded DRC Prisons ‘Ticking Time-Bomb’ For COVID-19
May 1, 2020
8:51 am
Goma, the Democratic Republic of the CongoΒ – Delcasse Lukumbu lies awake at night on the dirty concrete floor of Goma’s Munzenze prison fearing for his life. Surrounded on all sides by hundreds of inmates, the political activist, who was sent to Munzenze a few weeks ago, has no way of keeping a safe distance from others to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
“It will spread like a fire,” Lukumbu said on the phone last week. “As soon as one person catches the virus, we will all catch it within hours.
More than 2,400 mostly male prisoners are currently housed
