The President of Uganda and the King of the Baganda Kingdom within Uganda have met behind closed doors to discuss recent violence between the king's supporters and government forces which prevented him from making a visit to a neighboring district that claimed to have 'seceded from the Kingdom.'
Hold the phone. There are Kingdoms and Kings in Uganda? What? Totally did not know this, but apparently, the traditional Kingdoms were banned in 1966 and reinstated in 1993- so there are provinces and states and then there are kingdoms and King Ronald Mutebi is King of the Baganda People, the largest Ethnic Group in Uganda.
Supposedly the Prez and the King won't be talking politics as the King is 'a cultural leader and not a political one' but I don't see how they'll avoid it.
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