Uganda: Police issue security alert, reactivate anti-terrorism measures.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

The police have issued a security alert and reactivated anti-terrorism measures in the city after it re-emerged that terrorist attacks still loomed over the country.

The measures come after a call by Internal Affairs Minister Dr Ruhakana Rugunda at the weekend, following a disclosure by a US Department official that the east Africa region was the most risky area on the continent for American interests. [Passage omitted]

Addressing the press on Monday [26 April] at the central police station, Kampala police chief Benson Oyo Nyeko said the possibility of a terrorist attack should not be taken lightly. He …