India, Sept. 10 -- A news anchor was unexpectedly named the next monarch of Uganda's Tooro Kingdom on Wednesday following last month's death at age 34 of a monarch once known as the "boy king" because of his ascension to the throne as an infant.

A selection committee for Tooro announced their choice of Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma as crown prince following a search. A cousin of the late king, Kijanangoma is a news anchor and editor with state broadcaster Uganda Broadcasting Corporation.

He is likely to be crowned this week to succeed Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, who will be buried on Saturday in a funeral expected to be attended by tens of thousands of mourners in a remote city near the Congo border. King Oyo was unmarried at the ti...