Uganda uses taxi operators, salonists to gather intel

More than four years since the July 11, 2010 twin bombings in Kampala, which claimed 79 lives, Uganda’s security has worked on processing intelligence information faster and used it to foil several terrorist attacks by Somali group Al Shabaab, which targets frontline states that deployed peacekeepers in Somalia.

A security source told The EastAfrican that there are at least 500 crime preventers in each of Uganda’s 112 districts, who are trained to detect suspicious individuals, sieve information and covertly pass it on to the Joint Security Agency, which is charged with counter-terrorism duties.