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Kenya court suspends US plan for Ebola quarantine facility for Americans
Rights groups and doctors said the plan lacked public participation and could expose Kenya to grave biosafety risks.
- Kenya's High Court temporarily blocked a Trump administration plan to establish a military-backed Ebola quarantine facility for American citizens, issuing an urgent injunction just as the site was scheduled to begin operations.
- The proposed 50-bed makeshift field hospital was built at the Laikipia Air Base and intended to be managed by U.S. military and Public Health Service staff to isolate Americans exposed to a dangerous outbreak of the Bundibugyo Ebola virus in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Justice Patricia Nyaundi barred the Kenyan government from operationalizing the facility and blocked the entry of any infected or exposed individuals, enforcing a freeze until full legal petitions can be formally heard on June 2.
- The legal challenges were filed independently by the Katiba Institute and the Law Society of Kenya, which accused the government of cutting a deal in absolute secrecy without public participation, parliamentary oversight, or proper biosecurity safeguards.
- The plan ignited a fierce domestic backlash, including a 48-hour strike notice from the Kenyan doctors' union, whose leaders publicly condemned the deal and stated that the country should not be used as a foreign "dumping ground" for a lethal pathogen that the U.S. refused to bring to its own soil.
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Kenya court suspends opening of US Ebola quarantine centre
A Kenyan court on Friday temporarily halted the opening of an Ebola quarantine centre for US nationals following a petition filed by a rights group. The facility was due to open on Friday in Kenya according to US officials, to quarantine Americans arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is battling a major Ebola outbreak.
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