A journalist has been crowned king of Uganda’s Tooro Kingdom, a traditional monarchy plunged into grief and a succession dispute following the death of its “boy king” last month. Prince Edward Rukidi Nyabongo, long employed as a broadcaster and editor with the state-run Uganda Broadcasting Corporation, took his regnal name after performing night-time rituals before being ushered into the palace. He was formally unveiled to his subjects on Tuesday in Fort Portal, a town in western Uganda near the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Uganda’s traditional kingdoms were abolished in the 1960s by a republican president seeking to unify the newly independent country, but were restored in 1993.
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