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| Some 10,000 flee Congo to Uganda | Some 10,000 flee Congo to Uganda |
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| The UN is investigating reports that some 10,000 Congolese refugees have fled insecurity fuelled by militia loyal to Gen Laurent Nkunda to Uganda. | The UN is investigating reports that some 10,000 Congolese refugees have fled insecurity fuelled by militia loyal to Gen Laurent Nkunda to Uganda. |
| The exodus began on Tuesday and many are being put up in schools and homes close to the border in Kisoro District. | The exodus began on Tuesday and many are being put up in schools and homes close to the border in Kisoro District. |
| Local authorities say some have crossed back into the Democratic Republic of Congo in search of water and materials and may return on Wednesday evening. | Local authorities say some have crossed back into the Democratic Republic of Congo in search of water and materials and may return on Wednesday evening. |
| Gen Nkunda has been leading a rebellion in the east against the government. | Gen Nkunda has been leading a rebellion in the east against the government. |
| An ethnic Tutsi, he has in the past been supported by Rwanda and is blamed for much of the instability in the east in recent years. | An ethnic Tutsi, he has in the past been supported by Rwanda and is blamed for much of the instability in the east in recent years. |
| He says they are protecting the Banyamulenge - ethnic Tutsis who live in DR Congo from Rwandan rebels, some of whom are suspected to have participated in Rwanda´s 1994 genocide. | He says they are protecting the Banyamulenge - ethnic Tutsis who live in DR Congo from Rwandan rebels, some of whom are suspected to have participated in Rwanda´s 1994 genocide. |
| The BBC's Sarah Grainger in Goma says that an attempt to integrate some of General Nkunda´s troops into Congo´s national army earlier this year is widely believed to have backfired. | The BBC's Sarah Grainger in Goma says that an attempt to integrate some of General Nkunda´s troops into Congo´s national army earlier this year is widely believed to have backfired. |
| He now not only commands his own dissident forces, but also has control over those brigades of the national army into which his former troops were placed, our reporter says. | He now not only commands his own dissident forces, but also has control over those brigades of the national army into which his former troops were placed, our reporter says. |
| Fear | Fear |
| Uganda already hosts about 29,000 refugees from eastern DR Congo which remains unstable, despite polls last year that marked the end of a civil war. | Uganda already hosts about 29,000 refugees from eastern DR Congo which remains unstable, despite polls last year that marked the end of a civil war. |
| Congolese rogue general | Congolese rogue general |
| A joint team of UN and Uganda government officials has gone to investigate the situation along Uganda's south-west border with DR Congo. | |
| Local authorities say they believe those who returned to DR Congo will go back to Kisoro by the evening as they left most of their belongings at a primary school in Bunagana town where many sought shelter. | Local authorities say they believe those who returned to DR Congo will go back to Kisoro by the evening as they left most of their belongings at a primary school in Bunagana town where many sought shelter. |
| According to the UN's refugee agency, the refugees say they fled from militia loyal to Gen Nkunda. | According to the UN's refugee agency, the refugees say they fled from militia loyal to Gen Nkunda. |
| The UN has provided assistance to more than 15,000 Congolese who have fled from North Kivu to Uganda over the last two years. | The UN has provided assistance to more than 15,000 Congolese who have fled from North Kivu to Uganda over the last two years. |