SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki flew into Kinshasa on Tuesday evening and held talks on ending the war engulfing the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with new president Joseph Kabila. Mbeki appeared cheerful as they emerged from their hour-long talks at Kinshasa’s airport, but the 29-year-old DRC president appeared sombre, as he has since the assassination of his father, president Laurent Kabila, who was fatally shot by a bodyguard on January 16. Neither head of state made any comment to journalists. – AFP