UN peacekeepers patrol near Sake, in the Masisi territory of Kivu-Nord province on May 5, 2012

UN peacekeepers patrol near Sake, in the Masisi territory of Kivu-Nord province. In spite of tighter regulations recently adopted in Europe on imports of timber from Africa, it is almost impossible to verify the legality of tropical wood from DR Congo, according to the British-based non-profit organisation Resource Extraction Monitoring.