Mbandaka (DR Congo) (AFP) – The cemetery in Mbandaka, a river port city in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is the final resting place of many victims of the country’s repeated river boat accidents. With less than five percent of the vast nation’s roads tarmacked, many locals resort to poorly maintained “river buses” to get to school, market or work in the fields. Day and night, the so-called whaleboats ply the mighty Congo River — the second longest in Africa and the deepest in the world — overloaded with both people and cargo.
