{"id":237379,"date":"2026-06-25T16:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyan-senator-abdul-haji-did-not-approve-ebola-facility-in-garissa-for-us-citizens\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:44:09","slug":"kenyan-senator-abdul-haji-did-not-approve-ebola-facility-in-garissa-for-us-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyan-senator-abdul-haji-did-not-approve-ebola-facility-in-garissa-for-us-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Senator Abdul Haji Did Not Approve Ebola Facility in Garissa for US Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> A document posted on Facebook claims that the senator for Garissa, Abdul Haji, approved an Ebola quarantine facility in the county for US citizens. He has dismissed the document as fake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/187938632636843\/posts\/1473228170774543\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">document<\/a> posted on Facebook claims that Garissa senator Abdul Haji approved the establishment of an Ebola quarantine facility for US citizens infected while working in Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Ebola is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/ebola-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">severe viral illness<\/a> that can be fatal. <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/YzBfkCYrYzQmNfex8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Garissa<\/a> is in northeastern Kenya, about 350 kilometres from Nairobi, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606250514.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>IN SHORT: A document posted on Facebook claims that the senator for Garissa, Abdul Haji, approved an Ebola quarantine facility in the county for US citizens. He has dismissed the document as fake. A document posted on Facebook claims that Garissa senator Abdul Haji approved the establishment of an Ebola quarantine facility for US citizens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":237380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[14337,258,256,10880,7604,1111,9408,5899,39485,430,4524,257,7798,254],"class_list":["post-237379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-abdul","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approve","tag-citizens","tag-ebola","tag-facility","tag-garissa","tag-haji","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-news","tag-senator","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237379","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=237379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}