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{FILES] People carry bags of food on their heads during a mass looting of a warehouse that have COVID-19 food palliatives that were not given during lockdown to relieve people of hunger, in Abuja, Nigeria, on October 26, 2020. - Nigeria, with 200 million inhabitants, counts the highest number of extreme poverty in the world, with close to 90 million inhabitants who are at food risk. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP)

In the city of Kinshasa, there is a notorious prison called the Makala Prison. Built by Belgian colonisers in 1957, inherited by the Congolese who, not unlike many Africans, have refused to reform their prison system.

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