The Somali Islamist group Al-Shabab has said it was behind two bombings which killed more than 70 people in the Ugandan capital Kampala. Peter Greste reports.
Spokesman Sheikh Ali Mahamud Raage said his organization was responsible for attacking two venues as World Cup fans watched the last minutes of the final. Al-Shabab is fighting to overthrow the transitional federal government in Somalia.Uganda has sent thousands of troops to support the government there as part of an African Union force. And last week Al-Shabab warned it would strike the country
in retaliation
.
Investigators say they have found the remains of two people both, who appeared to be Somali nationals and who, they suspect, may be suicide bombers.
The French president Nicola Sarkozy has angrily
dismiss
ed allegations that he received illegal donations for his presidential campaign from France's richest woman Lilian Bettencourt. Mr. Sarkozy also said he had full confidence in his labor minister Eric Woerth, who’s been accused of accepting illegal donations from Mrs. Bettencourt. From Paris, here's Hugh Schofield.
President Sarkozy was at his most
combative
in this hour-long interview carried live from the
terrace
of the Elysee Palace. It was shameful, he said, to suggest that he received envelopes of money from the Loral heiress, a woman he knew only socially.
As for
his minister Eric Woerth, he was, he said, an honest, competent man whose name had been sullied by three weeks of lies and