Tag Archives: Tooro

Fort Portal, Uganda | URN | The official nine-day mourning period for the late Tooro King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV will begin only after his body arrives at Karuzika Palace, the Tooro Kingdom has clarified. The clarification supersedes earlier reports that the official mourning period had started immediately after …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | The passing of Tooro King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV has drawn messages of condolence from leading cultural institutions, with the Kyabazinga of Busoga, William Wilberforce Gabula Nadiope IV, the King of Alur, Philip Olarker Rauni III, and the Omusinga of Rwenzururu, Charles Wesley …

Fort Portal, Uganda | URN | President Yoweri Museveni has directed that the late Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, the King of Tooro, be accorded an official burial and that national flags fly at half-mast for three days in honour of the deceased monarch. Museveni announced in a condolence …

Fort Portal, Uganda | URN | Lion sculptures across Tooro Kingdom have been covered in bark cloth as part of traditional mourning rites following the death of Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV. The sculptures, including those at Karuzika Palace, the palace gate and other public places, have been draped in …

  Fort Portal, Uganda | URN | In the middle of 2014, Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV of Tooro Kingdom announced that he would fast in protest against what he described as the division of his ancestral territory. The trigger was the formal recognition of two new cultural …

  Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Jopadhola have joined Ugandans in mourning Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru IV, the King of Tooro. Obbo Richard Josel, the Tieng Adhola Cultural Institution’s Jago (Prime Minister), conveyed the message on Friday, saying the Prime Minister of Tooro had officially informed him of the monarch’s passing, …

Fort Portal, Uganda | URN | King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, Omukama of Tooro, was born on April 16, 1992, and died on Thursday, August 27, 2026, at age 34. Oyo was the second-born child of the late Omukama Patrick David Matthew Kaboyo Olimi III and Queen Best Kemigisa …

  Kasese, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | Hima Cement has joined cultural, religious and business leaders in mourning Tooro King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, who died in the United States on Thursday at the age of 34. The company extended its condolences to the Tooro Royal Family and …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | The Tooro Kingdom announced that King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV is dead. The sad news was delivered to the country in an official communication from Tooro Kingdom Prime Minister, Calvin Armstrong Rwomire Akiiki, following a wave of speculation on …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | The Tooro Kingdom has revealed that King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV is critically ill and asked the public to pray for him. In an official communication from Tooro Kingdom Prime Minister, Calvin Armstrong Rwomire Akiiki, following a wave of …