Africa: All of Africa Today – October 8, 2026

10 Quarantined After Kenya’s First Ebola Case

Kenya is facing its first confirmed Ebola case after a man who travelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo died in a Nairobi hospital. Health officials have quarantined ten people who came into contact with him, while tracing 57 others who may have been exposed. Concern is growing over screening measures after it emerged that the patient, who had reportedly been ill for about a month, travelled through several cities in DR Congo, crossed into…