Hundreds of youths protest outside Kenya’s Ebola quarantine center for US citizens
U.S. officials said the facility would have 50 beds and cost $13.5 million as Kenya’s High Court weighs a legal challenge.
- Kenya's High Court suspended the establishment of an Ebola quarantine center at Laikipia Air Base on Saturday, two days before hundreds of youths demonstrated in Nanyuki on Monday against housing foreign patients.
- United States officials announced plans on Thursday to send Americans exposed to Ebola while abroad to a new facility in Kenya instead of flying them home.
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States intends to commit $13.5 million toward Kenya's Ebola preparedness, with the facility designed to operate with 50 quarantine beds.
- The Law Society of Kenya and a constitutional watchdog filed a case challenging the move, citing Kenya's fragile health system as grounds to block foreign Ebola patients from quarantine there.
- Health Minister Aden Duale stated on Sunday that the quarantine center was for "everyone" and not exclusively for United States nationals, clarifying the facility's intended scope.
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Protests erupt in Kenya as US military defies court order over Ebola quarantine base
Hundreds of people took to the streets in the central Kenyan town of Nanyuki on Monday to protest moves by the United States to set up an Ebola quarantine facility at a military base there, residents told Reuters, days after the High Court ordered the government to suspend the plan temporarily.
Hundreds protest against planned US Ebola quarantine facility in Kenya
Hundreds of people took to the streets in the central Kenyan town of Nanyuki on Monday to protest moves by the United States to set up an Ebola quarantine facility at a military base there.
Residents of the Kenyan town of Nanyuki have taken to the streets to protest the planned construction of a quarantine center for Americans exposed to the deadly Ebola virus. Footage shows about a hundred demonstrators gathered, but local residents say many more people joined the protest.
Hundreds of Kenyan youths protest outside the Ebola quarantine center for US citizens
Hundreds of youths in Kenya’s central town of Nanyuki on Monday demonstrated against the establishment at the Laikipia Air Base of an Ebola quarantine center for American citizens exposed to the virus.
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