Secretary Clinton is also scheduled to make a brief visit to Goma in eastern Congo, where government soldiers in North and South Kivu provinces have been accused of mass looting and raping countless civilians.

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His neighbours have fled the tempest of tribal killing that has raged through Ituri, a province in north-eastern Congo, in recent months.

ECONOMIST: Congo's wars

French soldiers started to arrive in Bunia , the capital of a region in north-eastern Congo that has been torn by savage tribal fighting.

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Uganda, meanwhile, concentrated on north-east Congo, which was easily subdued.

ECONOMIST: Uganda and Rwanda