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A Succession Battle Erupts Over a Late Ugandan Monarch

Published by New York Times World By Zane Irwin · 11 September 2026 at 00:16
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A Succession Battle Erupts Over a Late Ugandan Monarch
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Family members and royal leaders are jockeying for control in the Tooro Kingdom after its former boy king died last month. Elders chose a TV journalist to succeed him, but the royal family has objected.

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