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Uganda foils Somalia Shebab cell plotting 'imminent attack': US

By AFP
Uganda Ugandan soldiers and police forces patrol streets in Kampala on July 3 2014.  By Peter Busomoke AFP
SEP 13, 2014 LISTEN
Ugandan soldiers and police forces patrol streets in Kampala on July 3 2014. By Peter Busomoke (AFP)

Kampala (AFP) - Ugandan security forces have stopped a cell of Somalia's Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents apparently "planning for an imminent attack," the US embassy said Saturday.

"Ugandan authorities reported the discovery of an Al-Shebab terrorist cell in Kampala," it said in a statement.

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