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Listen In depth coverage hosted by Newshour's Julian Marshall (19 mins 23 secs)
More than 250,000 people have been displaced by recent fighting
The fighting in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo is only the latest episode in a conflict which has its origins in the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda in 1994.
Since then there have been two Congolese wars.
The second which was meant to have come to an end in 2003, and which claimed the lives of four million people was described by the former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, as the deadliest conflict since the Second World War.
For Newshour, Julian Marshall looks at why the fighting has continued, why more than 17,000 UN troops have been unable to keep the peace, and whether additional troops from Europe would make a difference.
First broadcast 30 October 2008