Uganda is holding a public holiday for the burial of one of the country's traditional kings, who died last week of throat cancer aged 87.
Henry Wako Muloki ruled over Busoga, one of Uganda's five kingdoms.
Journalist Robert Ilukol told the BBC that people in the Ugandan town of Jinja were in a sombre mood ahead of the late king's state funeral. Dachshunds gene 'blindness clue' ...
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Locals described the king as a man who talked to young and old, and the most unifying factor in the region, he said.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni was among those attending the sate funeral near Busoga's main town, Jinja.
On Sunday, a five-hour requiem service was held for the deceased king in Jinja, the New Vision newspaper reported.
(BBC)
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