AN anonymous caller ringing Uganda from London on Sunday claimed responsibility for the bombing that rocked Kampala, the Ugandan capital, over the weekend. The death toll from the latest bomb attack which occured on Saturday evening in the city has risen to five while three other injured persons are in critical condition in hospital. The caller, who identified himself by only one name as Bogere, rang the independent Kampala daily, The Monitor, and claimed to be heading a group behind the city bombings before hanging up. The blast occured at around 8pm local time near a popular Khat (mirungi) selling centre behind the national Nakivubo Stadium about an hour after a football match.
TUTU AWARDED GERMAN PRIZE
NOBEL Prize laureate Desmond Tutu was on Sunday awarded Germany’s Dietrich-Bonhoeffer prize, which commemorates a German Protestant theologian murdered by the Nazis. At a ceremony at the French cathedral in Berlin thanked German churches for their support during the apartheid era. The prize worth 5000 euros was set up by the German publishing house Bertelsmann which will publish the German language version of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report.