
Police shot and killed a man protesting the building of a US-funded Ebola quarantine facility in Kenya today. The legality of the Nanyuki facility, which if completed, will have 50 beds, is still up in the air, but locals have protested the construction, saying it’s an unnecessary burden for Kenya to take on for the United States.
This is the third death among Kenyan protesters who are angry over the unit, which would be built near the Laikipia Air Base. Two protesters were also killed last week in skirmishes with local police.
The protesters say the Ebola unit would scare away tourists, introduce Ebola into the local population, and rock their already fragile healthcare system.
According to BNO News, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda now stands at 569 cases and 103 deaths. All new cases in the last two weeks have come from DRC, with Uganda’s situation more stable and holding at 19 cases and two deaths. Of those 19 cases, 15 were imported from DRC.