20+ hour, 4+ min ago   (549+ words) Musuuga Charles Kamurasi effectively outmanoeuvred Queen Mother Best Kemigisa at the burial of King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, pushing through traditional succession rites despite a government-backed agreement that expressly prohibited such ceremonies at the royal tombs. Sources familiar…...

23+ hour, 52+ min ago   (351+ words) The new King of Tooro, Edward Rukidi Nyabongo I has promised to restore Tooro Kingdom to its former glory. In his first recorded address to his subjects on Sunday, Nyabongo laid out his early priorities as the kingdom’s new monarch....

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1027+ words) FORT PORTAL: Attorney General Sam Mayanja has advised President Yoweri Museveni that the late King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV’s will should guide the succession to the Tooro throne, raising fresh legal questions over the recent enthronement of Edward…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (361+ words) OPINION: I have been in great pain since the loss of my son, my Friend, my King. Keeping quiet is not helping me. I feel like screaming out the pain in my heart—perhaps that is the only way I…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (816+ words) FORT PORTAL, Uganda: Tooro Kingdom Prime Minister Calvin Rwomiire has urged the royal family, Babiito clan leaders and other actors involved in the succession dispute to suspend the contest over the late King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV until…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (359+ words) The weather itself has become erratic and punishing. Farmers describe mornings of scorching heat followed by violent, unseasonal afternoon storms on the same day. That kind of whiplash is disastrous for rain-fed agriculture, destroying seedlings before they take root and…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (575+ words) ENTEBBE, Uganda: Fred Kabanda, one of the Ugandans involved in shaping the country’s petroleum regulatory framework, has been appointed Executive Director of the Petroleum Authority of Uganda, replacing Ernest Rubondo as Uganda prepares to begin commercial oil production. Kabanda will…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (775+ words) FORT PORTAL, Uganda — The late King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV explicitly named his biological son as the first heir to the Tooro throne in his last will and testament, while providing for two alternative successors if his son…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (629+ words) FORT PORTAL, Uganda — Princess Ruth Komuntale, sister of the late King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, has rejected the reported unveiling of Prince Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma as the successor to the Tooro throne, saying the process had not been…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (293+ words) Two former chiefs of Uganda’s military intelligence, retired Major General Abel Kandiho and retired Brigadier General Charles Bakahumura, were arrested on Wednesday morning, Chimp Corps report. Kandiho was picked up by security operatives from his farm in Gomba district, central…...