{"id":11622,"date":"2018-06-15T12:55:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T09:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ug\/?p=11622"},"modified":"2018-06-15T12:55:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T09:55:06","slug":"remembering-the-july-11th-world-cup-bombings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/remembering-the-july-11th-world-cup-bombings\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the July 11th World Cup bombings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On July 11 2010, Uganda was shaken on the finale of the World Cup.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"content-block\">For\u00a0Jovan Ssebaggala, 21, and his elder brother Joel, a government land valuer, the story started out well but the rest, as they say, is history. The duo arrived early to secure front seats. Fireworks marked the start of the game; then the vuvuzelas took over.<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-block\">At half-time, a few miles across town, a deadly explosion carried out by Somali Islamist militants ripped through an Ethiopian restaurant. But the news never reached the fans at the rugby club. There was not much social media use as is now.<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-block\">With three minutes of normal time remaining in the game, there was a loud blast. Jovan thought \u201cfireworks\u201d but instinctively jumped out of his seat towards the screen.<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-block\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\">The next time he saw his brother, it was on the front page of\u00a0The New Vision\u00a0the following morning. Joel was lying on his back, with his hand on his stomach, dead. So was the story for hundreds of other families.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 11 2010, Uganda was shaken on the finale of the World Cup. 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