Ten people arrested during a major security swoop in Uganda's capital were remanded in custody Wednesday after appearing in court on terror-related charges.

Ugandan police carried out a wave of arrests and reportedly uncovered explosives in the capital Kampala on September 13, just hours after the U.S. embassy in Uganda told its citizens in the country to seek shelter indoors because of fears of an "imminent" attack.

Ugandan police said Sunday that 19 suspected Islamist Shebab insurgents arrested in weekend raids had planned to carry out bomb attacks, as the U.S. embassy said the immediate threat had been "countered".

Police raids on Saturday came two weeks after Ugandan troops, fighting in Somalia, reportedly provided intelligence that helped U.S. special forces kill the Shebab's chief in a devastating air strike.

Ugandan security forces stopped a cell of Somalia's al-Qaida linked Shebab insurgents apparently "planning for an imminent attack," the U.S. embassy said Saturday.

Arrests were made, police said, in raids two weeks after Ugandan troops, fighting in Somalia, reportedly provided intelligence that helped U.S. special forces kill the Shebab's chief in a devastating air strike.

Uganda's constitutional court on Friday overturned tough new anti-gay laws that had been branded draconian by rights groups, saying they  had been wrongly passed by parliament.

Ugandan state lawyers sought on Thursday to dismiss a petition by activists at the constitutional court seeking to overturn tough anti-gay laws that have been condemned by rights groups as draconian.

Ugandan activists opened a petition Wednesday at the constitutional court seeking to overturn tough anti-gay laws that have been condemned by rights groups as draconian.

Signed by Uganda's veteran President Yoweri Museveni in February, the law calls for homosexuals to be jailed for life, outlaws the promotion of homosexuality and obliges Ugandans to denounce gays to the authorities.

Uganda's government said Wednesday it was lifting a ban on a TV station's coverage of presidential events imposed after the media outlet aired images it said showed President Yoweri Museveni asleep in parliament.

In a brief statement, government's spokesperson Ofwono Opondo said the presidential security service had decided to "reinstate NTV coverage of President Museveni's functions" as of Thursday, ending a month-long ban.

Uganda's army said Friday it had restored order to a mountain region in the west of the country after tribal clashes claimed close to 100 lives.

Army spokesman Paddy Ankunda told AFP that a heavily-armed alpine force had been deployed to area area and was sweeping the Rwenzori Mountains, home to Africa's third highest peak, for the remnants of the attackers.

At least 65 people have been killed in clashes between tribal gunmen and Ugandan government troops in the west of the country near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Sunday.

It was not immediately clear what sparked and who was behind the violence, but the region has been hit by recent communal violence between Christians and Muslims, and is also an area where an Islamist rebel group is known to operate.

The U.S. embassy in Uganda warned Thursday of a "specific threat" by an unknown group to attack Entebbe international airport, which serves the capital Kampala.

The alert came as travelers flying to the United States from Europe and the Middle East faced tighter security because of new concerns about the development of explosives that could circumvent airport security.