UGANDA: Museveni celebrates poll win with his cows

LOL! According to AFP, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni celebrated extending his three decades in power with a walk with his beloved cows, after an election rejected as fraudulent by the opposition and criticized by the international community.

Uganda's veteran leader was on Saturday proclaimed the winner of the country's presidential election with 60 percent of the vote, far ahead of the 35 percent garnered by detained opposition chief Kizza Besigye, whose house was surrounded by police in riot gear as the results were announced.

Besigye slammed the results as a fraud and appealed to the international community not to recognise them.

In contrast with the images of Besigye's besieged home, pictures released by the government showed a relaxed Museveni walking in the midst of his long-horn cattle and chatting with their herders, wielding a stick and wearing his trademark wide-brimmed hat.

Another photograph showed the 71-year-old leader surrounded by his family.

After Thursday's at times chaotic election, which returned him to a fifth term in office, Museveni said he planned to "go for my cross-country walk to exercise and then go to my cows."

The election have been described as 'fundamentally flawed' by Ex-Prime minister, Amama Mbabazi, who trailed in a distance third with just one percent of vote. International observers also raised the red flag over the proceedings, saying that Uganda's electoral commission lacked transparency and accusing the police of heavy-handed treatment of the opposition.