{"id":20935,"date":"2026-06-02T09:28:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/high-court-orders-kenya-government-to-release-details-of-ebola-facility-al-jazeera\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T09:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:28:51","slug":"high-court-orders-kenya-government-to-release-details-of-ebola-facility-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/high-court-orders-kenya-government-to-release-details-of-ebola-facility-al-jazeera\/","title":{"rendered":"High Court orders Kenya government to release details of Ebola facility – Al Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of people took to the streets in the central Kenyan town of Nanyuki against the planned site.<\/em>
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Kenya\u2019s High Court has ordered the government to disclose details of a proposed United States-linked Ebola quarantine facility, a day after hundreds of people took to the streets<\/a> in the central town of Nanyuki to protest about the planned site.
The Reuters news agency said two people died from gunshot wounds during Monday\u2019s unrest, citing protest organiser Patrick Wahome and a security source.
The court extended conservatory orders stopping the establishment of any Ebola quarantine, isolation or treatment facility in Kenya and barred the admission of individuals exposed to the virus.
It also ordered the cabinet secretary for health to make public the\u00a0agreement details, health and biosafety assessments, regulatory approvals and operational protocols.
On Friday, the High Court had ordered the government to suspend the plan temporarily, after a lawsuit was brought arguing that the site could endanger public health.
Senior US officials said the 50-bed unit at an air force base in Laikipia County would serve Americans who have been exposed to the virus but are still asymptomatic.
Kenya\u2019s government has pledged to proceed with plans to set up the facility, with Health Minister Aden Duale saying in a statement on Saturday that it was part of a broader effort to strengthen emergency response systems.
But critics of the plan say Kenya\u2019s health infrastructure is too fragile to cope with the potential dangers.
Al Jazeera\u2019s Catherine Wambua-Soi, reporting from Nairobi, said that at the hearing on Tuesday, the main petitioner, rights group the Katiba Institute, insisted the plan posed grave risks to health.
\u201cThe main petitioner, the Katiba Institute, who has taken this matter to court is blocking the facility, saying that the deal between the US and Kenya is not transparent at all,\u201d she said, adding that the Law Society of Kenya and the main doctors\u2019 union had also opposed the plan in the court hearing. \u201cThey are all saying no to that facility. So the judge said the government must present all the relevant paperwork for the deal.\u201d
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda are battling the rare Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus, in an outbreak that has so far killed 48 people and been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the WHO.
The outbreak<\/a> is outpacing the global response, which got off to a late start.
Kenyan President William Ruto defended the facility, saying it was part of a wider national preparedness plan and a long-running health partnership with Washington.<\/p>\n

Speaking for the first time about the facility,\u00a0Ruto said it was not unusual and was\u00a0similar to others already established in\u00a0Kenya.
\u201cThe facility that is at Laikipia Air Base is not a facility different from all the other facilities that we have across\u00a0Kenya,\u201d Ruto\u00a0told reporters in northern\u00a0Kenya\u00a0late on Monday, urging\u00a0Kenyans not to doubt the government\u2019s preparedness.
Ruto said he approved the\u00a0facility\u00a0after US President Donald Trump asked\u00a0Kenya\u00a0to support it, citing decades of cooperation with Washington on health programmes including HIV\/AIDS,\u00a0Ebola\u00a0and COVID-19.
The president said\u00a0Kenya\u00a0had prepared isolation, surveillance and treatment facilities in 23 counties, adding the facility would serve\u00a0Kenyans as well as foreign partners, including Americans, if needed.<\/p>\n

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