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Five inmates, three guards killed in prison break shootout

Five inmates said to be from Somalia's Al-Shabaab jihadist group and three guards were killed in a blaze of gunfire during an attempted breakout from the main prison in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday, prison authorities and witnesses said. Jailed members

129 killed in DRC prison break attempt

Earlier, a prison official had said no prisoners had succeeded in escaping, adding that those who tried to escape had been killed. The government was investigating the incident. The break out attempt occurred around 2am on Sunday.

Terrorists escape from Niger Republic prison

A jailbreak has occurred at Koutoukalé Prison in the Niger Republic, leading to the escape of numerous terrorists, criminals, and drug traffickers. According to reports from Reuters, the escaped inmates include detainees from Niger as well as members of armed

Three French prison officers killed as inmate escapes

Three French prison officers were killed and two others wounded Tuesday in an attack on a prison van transporting an inmate who escaped, a police source told AFP. The ramming attack took place late morning at a road toll in Incarville in the Eure region of

Jail Break: List of prominent Nigerians in Kuje Prison

Kuje Correctional facility came under heavy attack Tuesday night, leading to the escape of several inmates. The facility has replaced Kirikiri Maximum Security correctional facility as the 'VIP prison' for prominent Nigerians. Some of the current occupants

200 inmates escape after Prison Break in Minna .

The police in Niger State have confirmed that about 200 prisoners escaped in a jailbreak after armed attackers stormed the Minna Medium Security Prison on Sunday night. . One official was killed and about seven prisoners rearrested, the prison authorities

Armed men break Guinea's ex-junta leader out of prison

The former head of Guinea's 2008 military junta, Moussa Camara, was sprung from prison by heavily armed men in Conakry in the early hours of Saturday. He was taken along with three other high-ranking officers, Justice Minister, Charles Wright said. Residents

Seun Kuti breaks silence after his release from prison

Grammy-nominated afrobeat artist, Seun Kuti has spoken up for the first time since his release from police detention. We reported that the singer, who was detained at the State Criminal, Investigations and Intelligence Department, SCIID, Yaba, Lagos on the
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