(Reuters) -Comedians in Congo are mining their country’s chronic instability for laughs, entertaining people displaced by the war with the M23 rebels with their dark humour.

“Can you imagine Kabila as an emergency room doctor?” one of the comics said, setting up a joke about how former President Joseph Kabila’s slow speaking style would mean some patients would die before they even got seen.

“Kabila as an emergency room doctor would sound like this: ‘Thank you. Those with broken feet will be here, those with tibia problems will also be here … I’ll start again, I did say those with broken feet … oh, they’re already dead’,” he said, to roars from the audience.

The comedy show was before Kabila was sentenced to death in absentia for war crimes for his alleged role in backing the advance of

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