PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - Congo's president says his forces are succeeding against an extremist Rwandan militia in his country's east.

Speaking to reporters Friday during a visit to South Africa, Joseph Kabila said the campaign against the extremist militia will continue until he "controls the whole territory."

But Kabila says the situation is starting to stabilize some nine months after the campaign began, and that civilians in North Kivu have begun to return to their villages. Hundreds of thousands had been displaced.

The Rwandan Hutu militiamen, who fled Rwanda after helping orchestrate the genocide there, are accused of atrocities in eastern Congo.

Kabila also says he is "gaining ground" against Ugandan rebels in his vast, troubled country's north.

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