The Omusinga of Rwenzururu is the royal title given to the

monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...

s of the

Kingdom of Rwenzururu Rwenzururu is a subnational kingdom in western Uganda, located in the Rwenzori Mountains on the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The kingdom includes the districts of Bundibugyo, Kasese and Ntoroko. Rwenzururu is also the name ...

. The title was technically held by

Charles Mumbere Charles Wesley Mumbere, known by his royal title Irema-Ngoma I, is the king (known locally as the Omusinga) of the African kingdom of Rwenzururu, a subnational kingdom within Uganda. Mumbere was arrested in December 2016 after the clashes in th ...

for over 43 years after the first Omusinga, his father Isaya Mukirania, died in 1966. However, Mumbere was not formally crowned and recognised by the

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n government until 2009.

List of omusingas

# 1963–1966: Isaya Mukirania (Kibanzanga I) # 2009–present:

(Irema-Ngoma I)

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Kingdom of Rwenzururu Rwenzori Mountains Ugandan monarchies {{Africa-royal-stub

List of omusingas

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