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Health workers stand in a new Ebola treatment center during a visit of WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Bunia, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on May 31, 2026. [AFP]
Kenyans were shocked and alarmed to learn that the United States Government had secretly built an Ebola isolation and treatment centre at Nanyuki Air Base, a Kenyan military facility.
They accessed the information through US media reports. The Government of Kenya withheld this information from Kenyans and did not seek their views on the project. Kenyans are therefore justified not only in asking questions but also in questioning the answers provided by their Government on the matter.
The Nanyuki Ebola facility is for the exclusive use of Americans under the management of the US military. It will not be open to non-Americans. Thus, if an American infects a Kenyan with Ebola while in Kenya, the American would be treated while the Kenyan is turned away at the gate.
