Hundreds of youths protest outside Kenya’s Ebola quarantine center for US citizens
Police fired tear gas and warning shots as protesters opposed a 50-bed quarantine unit for Americans exposed to Ebola, officials said.
- 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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Eye on Africa - Protest outside Kenya's Ebola quarantine center for US citizens
In tonight's edition, hundreds protest in Kenya over plans to build an Ebola quarantine centre for US citizens in the town of Nanyuki. Also, with almost 300 suspected death from the outbreak, there have still been signs of progress in supplying rural Congolese health centres and millions are invested in speeding up vaccine research. And Ethiopia's leader is all but guaranteed a landslide victory in Monday's elections amidst accusations of repres…
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.
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Egyptian GazetteHundreds 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.
Kenyans protest plan for Ebola treatment facility for Americans exposed to the virus
Hundreds of Kenyans have taken to the streets in Nanyuki, in the central part of the country, to protest a plan by the Kenyan and U.S. governments to establish a quarantine facility to treat American citizens exposed to the Ebola virus.Many of the demonstrators are young Kenyans who say it is not right for their government to agree to U.S. demands to bring in American citizens exposed to Ebola. Protesters say the disease is contagious and could …
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.
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