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BUNIA, 14 July 2008 (IRIN) - Dozens of children are languishing in adult prisons in the Democratic Republic of Congo's northeastern Ituri district, despite a legal prohibition, according to a UN official.

"In Ituri, there are over 70 children in conflict with the law - 57 are in prison in Bunia, alongside three babies who are accompanying their mothers," Nandy Estelle Ouattara, the officer in charge of the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC) child protection section in Bunia, ...