Concurring on the need for a speedy process, L'Avenir notes that the Supreme Court "must" move fast and "put an end to this exercise in futility". For "prolonging it will only mean giving the troublemakers a greater margin of manoeuvre," the paper argues.

Meanwhile, the National Assembly's current plenary session continued yesterday, although the deputies belonging to Jean-Pierre Bemba's Union for the Nation (UpN) staged a walkout. According to La Tempête des Tropiques, the opposition benches left the meeting "to protest the adoption of the Assembly's Internal Rules and Regulations..." Charging that this adoption amounted to "endors[ing] the opacity in the management of the Assembly's financial resources," the UpN deputies "reserve the right to take the case to the Supreme Court at the appropriate time," the paper says.

The whole issue arose when "the deputies belonging to Union for the Nation tried to push for the formation a National Assembly Office representative of all significant political forces," according to L'Avenir.

In other news, Le Phare notes that "Kinshasa is holding its breath... ahead of the expiration tonight of the 48 hours Joseph Kabila gave Jean-Pierre Bemba to move his troops outside [the capital]." According to the paper, just "50 Bemba guards left the DRC capital yesterday morning."

On the brighter side, L'Observateur notes that "over 90 percent of results from the provincial elections have been compiled and posted" by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC).