{"id":234756,"date":"2026-05-29T03:43:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-katiba-institute-moves-to-block-proposed-ebola-quarantine-facility-in-kenya\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T03:43:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:43:21","slug":"kenya-katiba-institute-moves-to-block-proposed-ebola-quarantine-facility-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-katiba-institute-moves-to-block-proposed-ebola-quarantine-facility-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Katiba Institute Moves to Block Proposed Ebola Quarantine Facility in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Katiba Institute has filed a petition in court seeking to stop the proposed establishment of a quarantine facility in Kenya for American citizens exposed to Ebola and other highly infectious diseases.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Through Counsel Joshua Malidzo, the rights group has moved to court under a certificate of urgency, naming the Attorney-General and the Cabinet Secretary for Health as respondents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The petition seeks immediate orders halting any plans to establish, operationalise, or approve the facility&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605280479.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Katiba Institute has filed a petition in court seeking to stop the proposed establishment of a quarantine facility in Kenya for American citizens exposed to Ebola and other highly infectious diseases. Through Counsel Joshua Malidzo, the rights group has moved to court under a certificate of urgency, naming the Attorney-General and the Cabinet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":234757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00530492:44910e4904200a309e6ef26ebcec2b86:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,9056,1111,9408,13642,54488,4688,430,6858,257,8487,3722,254],"class_list":["post-234756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-block","tag-ebola","tag-facility","tag-institute","tag-katiba","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-moves","tag-news","tag-proposed","tag-quarantine","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00530492:44910e4904200a309e6ef26ebcec2b86:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}