Royal family rift after popular TV news presenter chosen to succeed Ugandan king
"Let us grieve and bury my son King Oyo."Thousands of mourners are expected to attend the burial at the royal tombs near the palace in Fort Portal in western Uganda.His body was returned to Uganda from the US on Friday, and preparations for the funeral are under way.Tooro is one of Uganda's traditional kingdoms. Its monarch has no formal political authority but remains an important cultural figure in western Uganda.Uganda abolished its traditional kingdoms in 1967, but they were restored in the 1990s under President Museveni.
- ▪"Let us grieve and bury my son King Oyo."Thousands of mourners are expected to attend the burial at the royal tombs near the palace in Fort Portal in western Uganda.His body was returned to Uganda from the US on Friday, and preparations for
- ▪Its monarch has no formal political authority but remains an important cultural figure in western Uganda.Uganda abolished its traditional kingdoms in 1967, but they were restored in the 1990s under President Museveni.
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Royal family rift after popular TV news presenter chosen to succeed Ugandan kingImage source, UBCImage caption, UBC TV news presenter Prince Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma has been selected as the new Tooro monarchByWycliffe Muia and Alfred Lasteck, BBC AfricaPublished10 September 2026, 09:27 BSTUpdated 14 minutes agoA bitter succession dispute has erupted in one of Uganda's traditional kingdoms, days before the burial of its late king, who until his death had been the world's youngest reigning monarch.King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, who ruled the Tooro Kingdom for more than three decades, was undergoing cancer treatment in the US when he died last month aged 34.Royal clan elders have named popular TV news presenter Prince Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma, 56, as the next monarch, but this…
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