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Edward Fredrick Mutesa, The President of Uganda.jpg by Unknown author Unknown author (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir._Edward_Fredrick_Mutesa,_The_President_of_Uganda.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Mutesa II of Buganda, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Sir. Edward Fredrick Mutesa, The President of Uganda.jpg — Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain.","cite":"\"Mutesa II of Buganda\". DigiNepal. Last updated 3 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/mutesa-ii-of-buganda. 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