William Ruto

Speaking in South Africa, Kenya's President William Ruto described the decision by his government to allow the U.S.

to set up the quarantine facility as, quote, the right thing.

Last week, the White House had said that the U.S.

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

A Kenyan court later temporarily suspended plans to set up the facility.

Earlier this week, protests against the quarantine center were held in the Kenyan capital Nairobi and the town of Nanyuki, where two people were killed.

Meanwhile, East Africa's regional economic bloc, the EAC, said that mobile Ebola testing medical labs

had been deployed to some member nations, including Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, which have both declared an outbreak of the disease.

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