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The leader of the Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD-ML) Ernest Wamba dia Wamba has said that internal rifts and lack of clear leadership in rebel ranks will greatly undermine the UN peace mission in DRC. He also told the semi-official Ugandan 'New Vision' that President Laurent-Desire Kabila did not trust the rebels and "is not in a position to sit down at a national dialogue to reach a consensus on an arrangement
that would bring peace and development." Wamba said RCD-Goma's
"fundamental problem" was that it "has been a government-in-waiting". "That was a Rwandan government scheme which the Congolese population is resisting," he said. The UN Security council on 24 February authorised the deployment of over 5,500 troops to the DRC with a mandate to protect UN monitors and personnel on the ground.
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