Anger grows in Kenya as residents accuse the US of offloading Ebola risks onto Kenyans.
Kenya’s health minister said on Wednesday that the US-funded quarantine centre would proceed, days after deadly protests erupted over the project. The US-built facility at Kenya’s Laikipia Air Base was due to open last week, according to US officials, to quarantine Americans arriving from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is battling a major Ebola outbreak. But it has been temporarily blocked by a court order, and triggered protests on Monday that killed two people, according to a...
Hundreds have protested in central Kenya against a US-funded plan to quarantine Americans exposed to Ebola there.
Hundreds rally against plan to send US nationals exposed to the virus to Laikipia Air Base.
The plan to send Ebola-exposed US nationals to Kenya, which has no known cases of the virus, has provoked a backlash.