{"id":35770,"date":"2026-05-29T10:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35770"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:33:10","slug":"kenyan-high-court-suspends-plan-for-us-ebola-quarantine-facility-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenyan-high-court-suspends-plan-for-us-ebola-quarantine-facility-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan High Court suspends plan for US Ebola quarantine facility in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A Kenyan High Court has ordered the temporary \u200bsuspension of plans for the United States (US) \u200cto set up an Ebola quarantine facility in the country.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>High Court Judge Patricia Nyaundi said in her \u200borders late on Thursday that Kenya \u200bwas also not allowed to admit anyone \u2060exposed to or infected by Ebola under \u200bthe planned agreement with the US, until \u200ba case challenging the deal was heard and determined.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On Thursday, the White House said the US was setting \u200bup a facility in Kenya to quarantine \u200bUS citizens who had been exposed to Ebola and would \u200cnot \u2060bring them home if they develop symptoms but instead send them to a third country.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kenya rights group Katiba Institute went to court \u200bon Thursday \u200bto challenge \u2060the plan.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The secretive, unilateral establishment of an Ebola quarantine facility raises \u200bgrave constitutional concerns regarding the rights \u200bto \u2060life, health, fair administrative action, public participation, and parliamentary oversight,&#8221; the rights group said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The next hearing \u2060for \u200bthe case will be \u200bon June 2, Nyaundi said in her order.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":35771,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-35770","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Kenyan High Court orders temporary \u200bsuspension of plans for US \u200cto set up Ebola quarantine","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35773,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35770\/revisions\/35773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}