Hundreds of protesters gathered in Nanyuki, a town in central Kenya, on Monday to demonstrate against a planned Ebola quarantine facility at the nearby Laikipia Air Base intended to house American citizens exposed to the virus. The protests followed a ruling by Kenya's High Court on Friday suspending the project, after the Law Society of Kenya and the Katiba Institute — a legal advocacy group — argued that the plan endangered public health and lacked transparency. Demonstrators marched to the air base gates, chanting slogans and burning barricades, while police and military personnel reinforced their presence on surrounding roads.

The facility, which US officials said would include 50 quarantine beds, was planned to serve Americans who had been exposed to Ebola while in the Democratic Republic of Congo or Uganda but were not yet showing symptoms. The current outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo strain of the virus — for which there is no approved treatment or vaccine — has recorded at least 282 confirmed cases and over 1,000 suspected cases in Congo, with more than 200 deaths since the outbreak was declared on 15 May. Uganda has confirmed nine cases and closed its border with Congo. Kenya itself has recorded no Ebola cases.

Opponents of the facility questioned why Americans should be brought to Kenya rather than repatriated to the United States.