The area has most recently been affected by a rebellion by the M23 rebel group which has forced 800, 000 people from their homes.

BBC: South Africa charges DR Congo 'rebels for coup plot'

The government counter-attacks, raises local militias, bombs rebel-held towns and proclaims that the rebellion will shortly be crushed.

ECONOMIST: War and paper peace in Sudan

Rwandan officials now speak of the Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, with open contempt, arguing that he has given extremists in the Ugandan miltiary free reign while also sabotaging the rebellion in Congo by encouraging the fragmentation of the main rebel movements.

BBC: Kisangani's cathedral 'in flames'