France, May 29 -- The White House said on Thursday that the US was setting up a facility in ‌Kenya to quarantine its citizens who had been exposed to ​Ebola, and that it would not bring them home if they develop symptoms, but would send them ​to a third country instead.

The US-built facility, located at the East African country's Laikipia Air Base, was due to open on Friday to "quarantine American citizens who may have been exposed to the Bundibugyo variant of the Ebola virus," a US official speaking on condition of anonymity told reporters.

The centre will have 50 isolation beds and is to be managed by US medical staff and technicians currently en route to Kenya, he added.

But late on Thursday, High Court Judge Patri...