Today's Kinshasa press broaches a variety of subjects but nothing that really stands out.

Le Potentiel notes: "The announcement of the [new] government [for the DR Congo] is imminent".
"Barring any last-minute change", this could "take place in the coming hours....or this weekend," this paper says.

For the moment, Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga is putting "the final touches on the makeup of this government prior to submitting it to the Head of State for approval". More precisely, he is "in the process of sifting potential ministers," according to L'Avenir. Mr Gizenga "still sticks by the demands he made prior to his being confirmed prime minister," explains Le Potentiel, recalling the prime minister's stated wish "not to work with some persons who appeared to have been implicated in economic crimes."

According to L'Avenir, the prime minister wants "to do things well...[especially because] this country has seen many governments hastily formed, purportedly in order to put an end to the [people's] misery but the end result has been an increase in poverty." But Gizenga's "work is progressing well" for the moment, this paper says.

In other news, Le Palmarès writes that "the bridge seems to have again broken up between Jean-Pierre Bemba and Joseph Kabila". Indeed, this paper assert, "Whenever there has been a chance for the two to meet, Bemba has always avoided his defeater [in last year's election]". In support of the assertion, Le Palmarès writes: "On the occasion of the burial of [deceased] Cardinal [Frederic] Etsou last Monday at [Kinshasa's] Notre Dame Cathedral, he [Bemba] managed to arrive tardily just so as to avoid shaking hands with Kabila [who was also present there]".

Bemba's Monday tardiness was "considered by security services [at the Cathedral] to be a spoiler," notes Le Potentiel, saying this is why he was initially "prevented from gaining access to the Cathedral before being allowed in after three minutes of negotiations..."

The day before, arriving directly from the airport after a trip in Europe, Bemba stopped by the Cathedral at around 11:00 p.m. to pay homage to the deceased Cardinal of Kinshasa," Le Potentiel notes, recalling how despite coming at that late hour, his appearance at the Cathedral "caused such a stir that thousands of moaners [present there] forgot their grief..."