{"id":5244,"date":"2014-09-15T13:44:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T06:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5244"},"modified":"2014-09-15T13:44:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T06:44:53","slug":"uganda-on-alert-over-foiled-al-shabab-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/uganda\/uganda-on-alert-over-foiled-al-shabab-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda on alert over &#8216;foiled al-Shabab plot&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The authorities in Uganda have uncovered a terrorist cell which they believe was planning an imminent attack, the US embassy in Kampala says.<\/p>\n<p>It said the cell belonged to Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, but this has yet to be confirmed by Ugandan police.<\/p>\n<p>The embassy earlier warned US citizens in the capital to stay at home during a police operation to uncover the cell.<\/p>\n<p>Ugandan police say they have increased security in public places across Kampala, and made several arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the US embassy warned of possible revenge attacks against US targets by al-Shabab in response to the US air strike that killed the group&#8217;s leader Ahmed Abdi Godane on 2 September&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Uganda News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-29193649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 News East Africa <a title=\"Uganda\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/uganda\/\">Uganda<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authorities in Uganda have uncovered a terrorist cell which they believe was planning an imminent attack, the US embassy in Kampala says. It said the cell belonged to Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, but this has yet to be confirmed by Ugandan police. The embassy earlier warned US citizens in the capital to stay at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[745],"tags":[258,256,3242,499,4695,2018,2711,257,4001,254,4059,4707,2062,4061,4060],"class_list":["post-5244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uganda","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahmed-abdi-godane","tag-al-shabab","tag-east-africa","tag-islamist-group","tag-kampala","tag-news","tag-somali-islamist-group-al-shabab","tag-south-africa-today","tag-terrorist-cell","tag-uganda","tag-uganda-news","tag-us-air-strike","tag-us-embassy-in-kampala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}