Mpanga prison

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Information about the institution
Surname	Mpanga International Prison
Reference year	before 2006
Detention places	8000
Institution management	Rwanda Correctional Service

The International Prison Mpanga ( English Mpanga International Prison ) is a prison in Nyanza district or Ruhango district in Rwanda . Founded in 2006, it is considered one of the most modern in Africa. The construction costs were the equivalent of around 2.4 million euros .

As an international prison, it is primarily used to accommodate African war criminals . Around 8,000 prisoners, including Rwandan and Sierra Leonean war criminals, are held in Mpanga. They were transferred by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone .

Sierra Leoner

Since Sierra Leone did not have the necessary infrastructure for the convicts in 2007, they were brought to Rwanda in 2009. The five remaining imprisoned Sierra Leonean war criminals are (as of November 2019):

Augustine Gbao (born 1948), senior member of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF); 25 years imprisonment
Morris Kallon (* 1964), senior member of the RUF; 40 years imprisonment
Brima Bazzy Kamara (* 1968), member of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC); 46 years and 50 weeks imprisonment
Santigie Borbor Kanu (* 1965), member of the AFRC; 51 years and 50 weeks imprisonment
Issa Sesay (* 1970), executive member of the RUF; 52 years imprisonment

Discharged early:

Moinina Fofana (* 1950), senior member of the Civil Defense Forces (CDF) - early release from prison in 2015; originally sentenced to 15 years in prison
Allieu Kondewa , CDF Leadership - Early Release 2018; originally sentenced to 20 years in prison

Died in custody: