LINK3 gives background...from BBC
...The UN is the glue which is holding Congo together.
Although it is stretched absurdly thinly - currently about 10,000 soldiers for a country larger than western Europe - it seems clear that without a UN force, and international pressure for peace, the war would have been even longer, bigger and more deadly.
With so few soldiers the UN cannot, as a rule, physically stop fighting....
the New Scientist says it is the worst humanitarian crisis since World war II...
Nor is the DRC the only trouble spot in that continent...
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