Plans by the Trump administration to build a 50-bed isolation and treatment center on a Kenyan air base for Americans who've been impacted by the Ebola outbreak in Africa were shot down by a high court in Kenya after a local group said it violated the country’s constitution.
Health workers wearing protective equipment gather to disinfect the isolation area for Ebola patients at the General Referral Hospital of Mongbwalu in Mongbwalu, on May 23, 2026.
FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2026Reports emerge that the Kenyan court issued an order—with no end date—temporarily suspending the establishment of the Ebola quarantine center, which the Trump administration said it had hoped to have running by Friday. Health officials in Kenya have criticized the plan to build such a facility for foreigners in a nation that has never had a recorded case of Ebola: “This quarantine center is American-focused. There are no plans for Kenyans who get infected by Ebola,” Davji Atellah, secretary general of the local doctors union, told the New York Times.
The World Health Organization announces the first recovery of a patient confirmed to have been infected with Ebola during the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
