Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was granted the highest honour of the Toro tribe of western Uganda when he attended the anniversary of the coronation of their child monarch.
Mr Gaddafi was made defender of the Toro kingdom during celebrations to mark the sixth anniversary of nine-year-old King Oyo Nyimba's coronation.
The ceremony was held in King Oyo's Karuziika Palace in the town of Fort Portal, about 400 km (250 miles) west of Kampala.
The function was also attended by Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni and other dignitaries.
King Oyo appointed Mr Gaddafi as his special adviser in May when the Libyan leader visited Uganda to attend the inauguration of Mr Museveni following his re-election as president in March.
Last month, King Oyo and his entourage travelled to Tripoli in a special plane provided by Mr Gaddafi - a visit that led to the king inviting the Libyan leader to the anniversary celebrations.
Huge entourage
Colonel Gaddafi flew in from Zimbabwe with three planes and a 250-strong entourage.
He was received by President Museveni at Entebbe airport, where a phalanx of the Libyan leader's female bodyguards jostled reporters and Ugandan security forces.
Mr Gaddafi was later driven to western Uganda to attend the celebrations. The convoy of presidential vehicles stretched for more than a mile.
Dozens of cars with Libyan number plates were ferried into Uganda ahead of the three-day visit.
Thousands of Muslims were at the airport to welcome Mr Gaddafi, creating chaos outside the airport. Thousands more lined the roads waving Libyan flags.
King without power
The king of the Toro is the cultural figurehead of about one million predominantly Christian subjects.
King Oyo, like dozens of other traditional leaders in Uganda, has no political power.
But Mr Museveni revived the roles of traditional leaders in the early 1990s to perform cultural functions.
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Three princes, two generations, one team(UK Times)
BY ALAN HAMILTON
HIGHGROVE UNITED has arrived as a new force on the polo field, with the Prince of Wales and his two sons playing together on the same side for the first time yesterday in a charity match at Cirencester Park, near the Prince’s Gloucestershire home.
The royal side beat the local Cirencester opposition by 4.5 points to four. Prince William scored his team’s third goal. His father at one point lost his temper, throwing away his stick in disgust and demanding a replacement.
All three played in a charity match at Henley-on-Thames last year, but on that occasion Prince William joined his father while Prince Harry played for the opposition. In that match honour was saved with a 5-5 draw.
Prince Harry again played against his father last month, with his elder brother and the model Elle MacPherson watching from the sidelines as Prince Harry’s side trounced the Prince of Wales’s team.
Prince William, encouraged by his father, took up polo while at Eton, but has been absent from the field recently while travelling on his gap year to South America and Africa. He was back in action last week, playing on the winning side in a charity match at Sherston, Wiltshire, and watched by another model, Jodie Kidd.
Both young princes are regarded as highly capable players. William has overcome the handicap of being a natural left-hander to wield his stick right-handed, as the rules of the game demand, to considerable effect. When he goes to St Andrews University in October he is expected to play for Dundee and Perth, one of only two polo sides in Scotland.
Injuries and advancing age have forced the Prince of Wales to give up top-class polo, but he is still a regular player in charity matches. Proceeds from yesterday’s match, which attracted a large crowd in bright sunshine, will go to the Prince of Wales Hospice in Pontefract, the Bristol Cancer Care Centre and the British Wheelchair Sports Foundation.
St James’s Palace confirmed last night that it was the first time the three princes had played together publicly in the same team, but could not say whether the Highgrove Three would become a regular line-up.