Somalia is more dangerous for civilians than Afghanistan or Iraq, a group that works to prevent civilian deaths said.

The confessed mastermind of bomb attacks in Uganda against World Cup football fans said he had hoped to kill many more Americans in the explosions in which 76 people, including one American, died last month.

Eighteen people were killed when a rear tyre burst on a speeding mini-bus, plunging it into a swamp in eastern Uganda, police said today.