Today's local press comments on the meeting between President Kabila of DRC and Denis Sassou Ngouesso of Congo Brazzaville over the week-end.

About the visit, Le Potentiel reports, "DRC and Congo Brazzaville Presidents addressed the issues about the DRC's army troops that took refuge in Congo-Brazzaville after the fall of the late President Mobutu Sese Seko of DRC and the close guards of the ex-Vice-President and Senator Jean-Pierre Bemba who fled to Congo-Brazzaville."

"The presence of Bemba' troops in Brazzaville poses a serious threat, according to DRC's authorities..., "argues La Tempete des Tropiques, indicating, "This is the very reason that prompted Joseph Kabila's visit to Brazzaville to attempt to persuade President Denis Sassou N'Guesso to hand them over."

The Parliament, "finally adopted the draft budget submitted by Prime Minister Gizenga," writes La Référence Plus "by 232 votes for versus 99 against and 21 abstentions." It is now "up to the financial commission of the National Assembly to make amendments," says L'Observateur

The headlines in Le Palmarès reads: "Gizenga has won," after "a harsh ordeal."

"Even though, The PM acknowledged how meagre is the budget 2007 arguing that it is the result of the mismanagement starting in 1960," notes L'Avenir.

Le Palmarès reports, "Kengo Wa Dondo, President of the Senate has narrowly escaped a lynching in Brussels on Saturday 02 June just at the time he was preparing to hold a conference; The assailant came in with knives, spoons, forks, hatchets and cameras," indicating "a communiqué signed by a group called Bana Congo that read: Here is the man we have been looking for."