Kenyan court halts US plans for Ebola quarantine facility for Americans – POLITICO

A Kenyan court has temporarily blocked the U.S. government from opening a new Ebola quarantine facility in the country for American citizens.

The U.S. announced Thursday it was planning to set up a new center at Laikipia air base, where American citizens exposed to Ebola during the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo could be quarantined before being transferred to Europe.

The 50-bed facility, located about 125 miles north of the capital, Nairobi, would have started operating on Friday. The president of Kenya, William Ruto, has approved the plan, according to U.S. officials, and the U.K. was in talks with the U.S. about joint access to the facility.