/ 20 June 1999

UGANDA ACCUSES SUDAN OF CO-ORDINATING BOMB ATTACKS

UGANDA is accusing the Sudanese embassy in neighbouring Kenya of coordinating bomb and grenade attacks which have left 55 people dead and 183 injured in Kampala since 1997. In the past, Sudan has accused Uganda of supporting the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army and Kampala in turn accuses Khartoum of backing rebels fighting the Ugandan regime who are allowed to maintain bases inside Sudanese territory. The Sudanese embassy in Nairobi has dismissed the Ugandan accusation as “totally untrue and baseless.” At a news conference held in Kampala on Wednesday evening, Ugandan security chiefs paraded seven suspects, all teenagers aged between 14 and 16, accused of masterminding last year’s attack on a technical college in western Uganda in which more than 50 students were killed.