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February 22, 2017

Prisoner’s death sparks tension at Malawi’s maximum prison

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Africa Malawi

Tensions are running high in the Malawi’s maximum prison facility in Zomba at the moment after the death of a prison inmate Elisa Mato who was reportedly beaten to death by warders.

February 20, 2017

Chad : N’Djamena, la Maison d’arrêt est engorgée

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Africa Chad

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February 15, 2017

Cameroun : à la prison de Yaoundé, les chanceux dorment assis, les autres debout

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Africa Cameroon

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February 15, 2017

Kenya: president directs release of petty offenders

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Africa Overcrowding Kenya

President Uhuru Kenyatta has directed Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery and the Commissioner of Prisons, Gen Isaiah Osugo, to liaise with the chief justice and fast-track the release of petty offenders to decongest prisons and reduce government spending on them.

February 15, 2017

Cameroun : la prison de Yaoundé, les chanceux dorment assis, les autres debout

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Africa Cameroon

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February 14, 2017

En Éthiopie, le développement rural passe par l’emprisonnement

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Africa Ethiopia

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February 14, 2017

Bénin : la réinsertion des détenus reste une chimère

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Africa Benin

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February 14, 2017

Au Bénin, la réinsertion des détenus reste une chimère

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Africa Benin

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February 13, 2017

Côte d'Ivoire : à la prison d’Abidjan, le parcours tortueux de Yacou le Chinois

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Africa Côte d’Ivoire

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February 8, 2017

Tunisie : Reportage - Jihed, 15 ans en détention depuis 369 jours

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Africa Tunisia

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February 6, 2017

Guinée : les administrateurs de prison formés à mieux gérer les dossiers des détenus

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Africa Guinea

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January 31, 2017

Cameroun : la "vie abominable" d'un détenu de la prison centrale de Yaoundé

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Africa Cameroon

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January 31, 2017

Nigeria: 47,229 awaiting trial in our prisons, says Osinbajo

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Africa Nigeria

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, monday lamented the delay in the country’s justice administration, which he said was the reason 47,229 detainees “are still awaiting trial in the prisons.”

January 31, 2017

Exclusive: Cameroonian prisoners smuggle out footage of horrific jail conditions

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Africa Cameroon

The main prison in Yaoundé, Cameroon is “overpopulated, filthy and rife with corruption and abuse”, according to an inmate who contacted FRANCE 24’s The Observers from behind bars. This man secretly filmed, with the help of some of his inmates, the overcrowded cells and “revolting” conditions in wh…

January 24, 2017

Kenya: prisons are full of young and poor petty offenders, report indicates

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Africa Kenya

More than 75 per cent of prisoners are aged between 18 and 35, with a majority of them being petty offenders.

January 23, 2017

Sierra Leone: a library for Pademba Road Prison

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Africa Culture Sierra Leone

Well, it has taken 7 years, but today I am happy to say that I have finally delivered on the promises I made so rashly back in 2010.

January 23, 2017

Le Burundi débute la libération de 2.500 détenus pour désengorger ses prisons

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Africa Burundi

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January 23, 2017

Burundi frees prisoners, but rights groups cautious

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Africa Burundi

Burundi began Monday releasing a quarter of its jail population under a mass presidential pardon, but prisoners’ rights groups voiced concern they were just making room for more political inmates.

January 19, 2017

L’Observatoire marocain des prisons s’inquiète de la proportion des détenus préventifs

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Africa Morocco

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January 17, 2017

Zimbabwe: typhoid outbreak spreads to Harare prisons

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Africa Health Zimbabwe

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January 16, 2017

RDC : Kinshasa, pénurie d’eau à la prison de Makala

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Africa Health Congo - Kinshasa

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January 16, 2017

Benin: death row prisoners held in cruel limbo

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Africa Death penalty Violence Benin

Prisoners on death row in Benin are languishing in a cruel limbo after a court decision last year effectively abolished the death penalty, but failed to commute existing death sentences, said Amnesty International in a new report today.

January 10, 2017

Liberia: congested Monrovia Central Prison rejects new inmates

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Africa Overcrowding Liberia

Lack of rooms to hold incoming inmates at the Monrovia Central Prison is now giving absolute freedom to suspected criminals and offenders of the law to gallivant in communities despite the security threats they may pose to citizens.

January 8, 2017

Maroc : la prison de Qara de Meknès, un lieu chargé de légendes

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Africa Culture Morocco

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