Complex sentence: Fatal maritime accidents are frequent in the DRC and are often blamed on overloading, with the past decades of conflict in the region having destroyed the country's infrastructure, leaving aircraft and boats as the best or only option for travel.
Split into simpler sentences: Fatal maritime accidents are frequent in the DRC and are often blamed on overloading. Several decades of conflict in the region has destroyed the country's infrastructure, leaving aircraft and boats as the best or only option for travel.