Riot police have been deployed since yesterday for fear of violence.

Bishops of the Catholic Church, which is easily the most dominant religion in the Democratic Republic of Congo, were saying last week that they knew who had won the Presidential election.

They obeyed the law against naming any victor prematurely.

However, diplomatic sources gleaned from them that opposition coalition candidate Martin Fayulu had succeeded as pre-election polls indicated he would.

Fayulu is expected to contest the provisional result and the fact that more than 1,2 million voters in three cities strongly supporting him had been disenfranchised.

The question is, will his supporters chose the streets or the courts to express their rejection of the outcome.

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