Kenya's Health Minister ordered a halt to construction of a US Ebola facility at Laikipia Air Base and was subsequently held in contempt of court for defying a stop-work order before expressing regret and receiving a pardon. The 50-bed facility, announced in May and located roughly 200 km from Nairobi, prompted a May petition by the Katiba Institute and protests in which several people were killed. Satellite imagery of continued construction and the article's reported June 2026 publication date remain unverified.