As well as Mr Kabila, the presidents of Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Namibia are in Paris, as are the Angolan defence minister and Chadian foreign minister.
And in 1998, Angolan troops joined Zimbabweans and Namibians in defending the other Congo's president, Laurent Kabila, against the rebels backed by Rwanda and Uganda.
AN ANGOLAN refugee camp is not a happy place.
The accusation, repeatedly denied by the rebel leaders but repeated by Mr Dos Santos yesterday, is believed by Angolan military officials to be untrue.
As for Angola, the excuse for its massive intervention in Congo on the side of Mr Kabila was a purported alliance between the rebels and the Angolan Unita movement.
Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) cadres fought side-by-side with the Angolan MPLA and the Cubans to defend Angola's independence.
The presence of Angolan, Zimbabwean and Namibian troops is seen as legitimate, since they were requested to intervene by the government.
Rebel radio communications, supplied by the Americans when Mr Savimbi was their ally, are intercepted, and that information too gets through to the Angolan government.An Israeli company has helped to provide a radar system to track planes flying to UNITA areas.
This information is passed to the Angolan army.
In a telling sign of the times, for a brief spell last year China was buying more Angolan crude than the Americans.
What Mr Savimbi fails to realise is that he himself is the cork holding in Angolan anger against the government: most Angolans are more frightened of him and his men than they are outraged by the government's neglect.In this section Could it be peace?
