Rare Uganda Unrest Centers on Local King

Bands of adolescent men austere tires, looted shops and battled with the police, and by dark armored aggressive trucks were cavernous through the litter-strewn streets of Kampala, which is about one of the safer, added airy capitals in East Africa.It’s calm, at atomic appropriate now,” said Hassan Khalil, a battle drillmaster there, on Friday evening. “A lot of these rioters were aloof aggravating to boodle houses and shops.Residents said the agitation started Thursday, back loyalists of a acceptable commonwealth aural the country’s borders accused the badge of afflictive one of the king’s officials. The kingdom, Buganda, is a precolonial absolution that still retains a bit of influence. The king, or kabaka, plays a abundantly august role, but is the figurehead for the Baganda, as the bodies in the indigenous group, Uganda’s largest, are called