Michael Kuluki

Protests were witnessed in the central town of Nanyuki, with local media showing police engaging demonstrators in running battles.

Many businesses remain closed.

Protesters called on the Kenyan government to block the United States from setting up an Ebola quarantine center at an Air Force base located in the area.

The White House had said last week that the U.S.

was establishing a facility in Kenya where Americans who had been exposed to Ebola would be quarantined.

adding that those exhibiting symptoms of the disease would be moved to a third country.

A Kenyan court later temporarily suspended those plans.

For NPR News, I'm Michael Kaluki in Nairobi.