Liyo Silobo, a Congolese inmate prepares a meal inside the Central de Bunia prison in the northeast of town Bunia, Ituri province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo September 23, 2020. REUTERS/Erikas Mwisi Kambale
BUNIA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - 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.
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