Featuring prominently in today's Kinshasa press is the head-to-head meeting Tuesday between President Joseph Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba, who faced each other in a runoff presidential vote on 29 October.

According to La Tempête des Tropiques, this Kabila-Bemba meeting "will help ease tensions in the capital, Kinshasa, where fear is beginning to grip the population". Anticipating that this meeting will generate "an atmosphere of peace and national reconstruction," La Référence Plus "congratulates both candidates for showing to the whole world their ability to resolve differences among the Congolese."

With this meeting, Kabila and Bemba sent a strong message that "the Cassandras from both camps should follow [their leaders] and turn away from incendiary speeches and divisive hate-inciting messages [they have been peddling] through the media," according to La Référence Plus.

In other news, Le Phare reports that "inhabitants of Gbadolite are fleeing" the northeastern town in "fear of a new armed confrontation". "Waves of heavily armed integrated troops and police have been arriving in Gbadolite from Kinshasa," explains the paper, adding this is something that locally-based "soldiers in charge of protecting Jean-Pierre Bemba do not see in a favourable light".