Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. And I'm Omna Nawaz. On the news hour tonight, a race to contain the spread of Ebola in Central Africa as a Kenyan court blocks U.S. plans to open a quarantine facility.

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In Central Africa, officials and health workers are still struggling to get control of a spreading and deadly Ebola outbreak.

There are now more than 900 suspected cases and over 220 suspected deaths. Authorities fear the real numbers may be significantly higher.

And today, a Kenyan court temporarily blocked the Trump administration's plan to open a quarantine facility there

to treat Americans exposed to or infected with the virus.

William Brangham has more.

That's right, Jeff. Kenyan officials had initially approved this plan for an Nibola facility requested by the Trump

administration, but local backlash spurred a legal challenge to halt that project.

Under today's ruling, that facility must remain closed until the court hears the case next week.

For more on all of this, we are joined again by Dr. Craig Spencer.

He's an associate professor of public health and emergency medicine at Brown University.

He worked in West Africa during the 2014 outbreak and survived Ebola himself.

Craig Spencer, so good to have you back on the program.

About this Kenyan quarantine facility.

You wrote that this was an abdication of American responsibility to possibly send Americans there.

How so?

Well, over the last year, we've seen an abdication of U.S. leadership on the global stage,

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