"I've been in a lot of very difficult and terrible settings," Mrs. Clinton said later. "And I was just overwhelmed by what I saw."
"It is almost impossible to describe the level of suffering," she said. Eastern Congo's rape epidemic, she added, "is just horrific."
Mrs. Clinton used her unprecedented visit she is the first secretary of state to venture into the war zone here to unveil a $17 million plan to fight Congo's stunning levels of sexual violence, a problem she called "evil in its basest form."
