Inside Trump secret Ebola deal with Kenya

In Kenya on 28 May 2026, two stories were in the news. The US will send Americans exposed to Ebola to a makeshift hospital in Kenya, rather than bring them home, and Kenya approved the US plan for an Ebola quarantine facility. The New York Times wrote that the unit would open on Friday. The plan divides health workers, and CNN wrote that the proposed facility sparked backlash at home and abroad.

Separately, a fire tore through a girls’ school dormitory in Kenya, killing at least 16 students and injuring dozens; Al Jazeera’s Arabic service put the injured at 79.