An activist shouts slogans while being arrested by plainclothed Kenyan police officers during a protest against a US-built Ebola quarantine centre planned to begin operations at Kenya's Laikipia Air Base, in downtown Nairobi on Tuesday. Kenya's president defended the opening of an Ebola quarantine centre for US nationals after a court halted the plan and security forces teargassed protesters fearing the deadly virus could spread in the country.
Rael Ombuor
Kenya’s High Court on Tuesday extended its order to halt a Trump administration plan to establish a field hospital for Americans exposed to or infected with Ebola.
The facility, which was constructed by the US military - with Kenyan government approval - on an air base on the outskirts of Nanyuki, a town in central Kenya, had been set to open last Friday but was blocked by an initial court decision.
The makeshift hospital is intended to isolate Americans exposed to Ebola, a viral hemorrhagic fever following an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
