Uganda, April 13 -- The former Bugisu cultural leader, Wilson Wamimbi Weasa is dead, the Inzu Ya Masaba, the cultural institution of the Bamasaaba announced Saturday.

Wamimbi who also served as Uganda's high commissioner to Canada in the 1990s died Friday at around 8pm at Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala where he had been receiving treatment.

"We wish to announce the death of Ambassador Wilson Wamimbi Weasa, the first ever Umukuuka of Inzu Ya Masaaba. Burial arrangements will be communicated,"said Mr Alfred Geresom Musamali, the minister for information, media and communications of Inzu Ya Masaaba.

He said Wamimbi was recently admitted to a health facility in Namulanda on the Kampala-Entebbe Road before he was transferred to ...