Deadly protests in Kenya over a US-built Ebola facility: reckless imposition, or a needed health partnership?
Deadly protests have erupted in Kenya against a US plan to build an Ebola quarantine facility at Laikipia Air Base — demonstrators cite infection fears and a lack of transparency, and a protest leader says police shot dead protesters. President Ruto defends the facility as 'the right thing,' pointing to a longstanding US-Kenya partnership on health.
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Demonstrators — waving Kenyan flags and carrying a coffin marked 'Ebola' — demand the US plan to build the facility at a military base be scrapped, citing fears of cross-border infection and the government's secrecy about the project, amid a deadly police crackdown that a protest leader says has killed demonstrators.
President Ruto defends the project as 'the right thing,' saying the US has a longstanding partnership with Kenya on health and that the quarantine facility at Laikipia Air Base is a legitimate part of the regional response to the Ebola outbreak spreading from neighbouring countries.
