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The Guardian - UK
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Carlos Mureithi in Nairobi and agencies

Secret son revelation ignites bitter succession dispute in Ugandan kingdom

Mourners including Princess Ruth Komuntale and the Queen Mother Best Kemigisa Akiiki at a ceremony to receive the coffin containing the body of King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV at Entebbe International Airport in Uganda.
Mourners including Princess Ruth Komuntale (second left) and the Queen Mother Best Kemigisa Akiiki (right) at Entebbe International airport, where they received the coffin containing the body of King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV. Photograph: Abubaker Lubowa/Reuters

A traditional Ugandan kingdom has become engulfed in a bitter succession dispute after the family of a king who recently died rejected the selection of a television news anchor as his successor.

King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, who became the world’s youngest reigning monarch when he took the throne in the kingdom of Tooro in 1995 at the age of three, died on 27 August in the US, where he was receiving cancer treatment.

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