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Kenyan police fire tear gas, make arrests at US Ebola centre protest

Tensions flared in central Kenya as protesters clashed with police over plans to build an Ebola quarantine centre for US citizens. Officers fired tear gas and made arrests in Nanyuki, where residents say they fear the facility could pose risks to the local community.


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00:01Tensions flare in central Kenya as protesters clash with police over plans to build an Ebola quarantine center for US
00:08citizens.
00:10Officers fire tear gas and make arrests in Nanyuki, where residents say they fear the facility could pose risks to
00:17the local community.
00:19We are saying no to Ebola in Laikipia. We won't accept our motherhood to be defiled by previous diseases.
00:30So we are rejecting Ebola and we are saying the Americans are going to take their Ebola and go back
00:36to their country.
00:37How can you bring it here in Nanyuki? And yet our healthcare system is not yet in good condition.
00:43Our social health authorities are in a very bad situation. How can we entertain a disease and that we are
00:49not prepared?
00:50Kenya is not prepared for Ebola. Kenya is not prepared. It should be taken to Trump in the USA.
00:57The center of Laikipia Air Base in the town of Nanyuki is due to have 50 isolation beds and be
01:06managed by US staff.
01:20Kenya says the Ebola facility will serve both Kenyans and Americans, backed by $13.5 million in US support.
01:29Kenya says that the for equalvenidos.
01:30The state of LA is Manufacturing County of the United States has moved all the exertion jungles to drag grainants
01:30into free and lower confiance.
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