Uganda: Traditional Kingdom Plunged Into Succession Crisis
The family says the late king left a will naming a son, while clan leaders chose a cousin and questioned the boy’s existence.
- Tooro's royal family rejected a succession committee's choice on Thursday, plunging the kingdom into crisis after the committee named Prince Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma as successor to late King Oyo Nyimba.
- Following King Oyo Nyimba's death on August 27 at age 34 from cancer in the United States, the succession committee selected television anchor Prince Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma on Wednesday as the next monarch.
- Queen Kemigisa condemned the committee as a "self-appointed group of clan members," while journalist Andrew Mwenda questioned whether the alleged son exists, noting no photographic evidence has emerged.
- Prime Minister Armstrong called for calm on Thursday, demanding the succession proceed "calmly and credibly" without "competing announcements" or "confrontation" as the funeral approaches Saturday and Queen Kemigisa alleged military house arrest.
- Although Uganda is a republic, Tooro remains one of several ancient kingdoms whose leaders hold significant social influence as keepers of tradition, with President Yoweri Museveni having attended Oyo's 1995 ascension celebrations.
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Uganda: Traditional Kingdom Plunged into Succession Crisis
A royal succession committee and the family of late King Oyo Nyimba of Toroo have put forward competing candidates. Questions have been raised as to whether the late monarch indeed had a son as his family claims.
Uganda's traditional kingdom of Tooro has been embroiled in a bitter succession dispute after the late king's family rejected members of the royal family's choice to appoint a television news editor as his successor.
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