Kenya health minister says US Ebola quarantine centre will proceed

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Kenya's health minister confirmed that the US-funded Ebola quarantine centre at Laikipia Air Base will proceed despite recent deadly protests and a temporary court block. The facility aims to quarantine Americans arriving from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Kenya’s health minister said on Wednesday that the US-funded quarantine centre would proceed, days after deadly protests erupted over the project. The US-built facility at Kenya’s Laikipia Air Base was due to open last week, according to US officials, to quarantine Americans arriving from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is battling a major Ebola outbreak. But it has been temporarily blocked by a court order, and triggered protests on Monday that killed two people, according to a...