Al Shabaab rebels plan to start key abductions in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and Burundi

Senior government officials in Kenya, Burundi, Ghana and Uganda are worried after intelligence information indicated that Al Shabaab rebels are planning to start kidnapping them.

Security sources in Uganda told one of our security reporters yesterday that Al Shabaab fighters are planning to start kidnapping senior government officials in countries that have foreign troops in Somalia and take them to unknown locations. Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, and Ghana deployed heavily in Somalia on the permission of the African Union.

The Al Shabaab fighters based in Somalia are feared across the world for planting bombs in social centres and kill hundreds of civilians. In 2011 they killed over 76 people in Uganda’s capital, Kampala and recently killed over 70 people in a gun attack in Nairobi, Kenya.

However, the security sources in Uganda told us that they are ready to contain any political situation by the Al Shabaab.

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