Awwal 21, 1432 H/Feb 24, 2011, SPA -- The Ugandan candidate who lost to President Yoweri Museveni in this month's vote is calling for peaceful protests in response to what he called a rigged election, AP reported. Kizza Besigye, who took 26 percent of last Friday's vote to Museveni's 68 percent, addressed several hundred supporters in Kampala on Thursday and called for new elections. Besigye called the current electoral commission «incompetent» and said all elections under Museveni's government have been rigged. Army spokesman Felix Kulayigye downplayed Besigye's call for protest and said «we are ready for them.» -- SPA
