Another One from Zimbabwe, to Get Us in the Mood ...

I made this cartoon at the beginning of last year. Surprisingly, though nearly 5.5 million people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1998, life expectancy there for both men and woman is much higher than for women in Zimbabwe. DRC life expectancy for men is estimated (depending on the source) at from 45-48, for women from 48-51.

Not a Congo Comic, but ...

I was looking through my cartoon archive this morning, and came across this Robert Mugabe cartoon (and many others ... he's so cartoonable). Geography wizards will know that Mugabe has destroyed a different African country than the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I think the sentiment expressed in this cartoon have application well beyond Zimbabwe's borders ...