On 13 September 2014 , the Ugandan security and intelligence services , with the assistance of the United States , identified and foiled a major Al-Shabaab terrorist attack in Kampala , the capital city . They recovered suicide vests , improvised explosive devices , and small arms , and they arrested 19 people who were suspected to have had links to Al-Shabaab . This attack could have been as substantial as the attack in Nairobi from the previous year at Westgate Mall . Instead , it was a failure for Al-Shabaab
attack in Nairobi
Westgate shopping mall attack
History of Uganda