Congolese comedian Danny Weng's entertains revellers during a stand-up comedy where a group of local wisecrackers bring relief to soldiers, refugees, and war-weary residents through an unexpected source of escape in one of the last strongholds under control of Congo's government army, inside the Ishango Lodge in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo September 26, 2025. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere
(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.
