Senator Jean Pierre Bemba's return to the DRC is the dominant topic in today's local press.

The headlines in La Tempête des Tropiques read: "Jean-Pierre Bemba is not returning soon."

"The former Vice-President is not returning soon because he keeps imposing the same conditions," explains Le Potentiel.

La Tempête des Tropiques maintains, "The power in place is not ready to put in place the conditions required for his safe return"yet, "the Goma conference recommended that efforts be made to make every Congolese feel effectively secure to allow them to participate in the reconstruction of their country..."

"March parliament session will be highly critical for senator Jean-Pierre Bemba," says Le Potentiel, highlighting, "Senator Jean-Pierre Bemba did not attend the March and September 2007 sessions and under the Senate's rules and regulations, an ad hoc commission must be established to address the issue of his immunity."

In other news, says L'Avenir reports, "... in spite of the international community's hypocritical involvement, the issue of the Kinyarwanda-speaking militiamen and the FDLR are yet unresolved." About the FDLR's repatriation, "MONUC, the eye and ear of the international community has adopted a double language; when things go wrong, MONUC lays the blame on the DRC and when the latter decides to use force as a last resort, MONUC comes in to raise humanitarian tragedy and to propose a voluntary repatriation trying to give an excuse for Nkundabatware's rebellion."

Le Phare reports "feeling of general discomfort within the magistracy following new magistrates' appointment denouncing it as a violation of the constitution."