Clashes have erupted in the town of Nanyuki, central Kenya, as hundreds of people demonstrate against the establishment of a US-run Ebola quarantine center. Kenyan police used teargas to disperse the crowds, and at least one protester was shot in the head and killed during the unrest. Demonstrators, some wearing protective equipment and carrying a coffin marked Ebola, gathered near the Laikipia airbase, the proposed site of the facility located about 120 miles from Nairobi.
The center is intended to host American citizens and servicemen who have been extracted from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda after being exposed to the Ebola virus. Local resistance has grown fierce, with many Kenyans accusing the US government of outsourcing and offloading health risks to a country that has never registered an Ebola case.
While a high court order has placed a pause on the construction of the facility, the President has vowed to press ahead with the plans. The President stated that Nairobi owes Washington for years of aid support, despite ongoing frustrations among citizens who continue to take to the streets in protest.