Some 10,000 Flee Congo to Uganda

The US is investigating reports that some 10,000 Congolese refugees have fled insecurity fuelled by milita loyal to Gen. Laurent Nicunda to Uganda.The exodus began on Tuesday and many are being put up in schools and homes close to the border in Kisoro District. Ge. Nijunda 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.