It seems some African nations have grown tired of the Trump administration treating them like lab rats.

The Trump regime’s interests in African nations over the past year seem to have been limited to letting its allies plunder resources from those countries or using them as a dumping ground for deportees targeted by the president’s racist anti-immigrant crackdown. This posture from Trump and company, in which the U.S. attempts to impose its will on African nations, differs from the Biden administration’s approach, which sought to reset diplomatic ties by taking a less paternalistic, less exploitative stance.

And we’re starting to see what it looks like when African nations bristle at the type of relationship Trump is trying to foster. The latest example came on Friday with a Kenyan court’s decision to block a U.S. plan to send Americans there to quarantine when they pose an Ebola risk.  

The Washington Post reported:

A Kenyan court Friday suspended a Trump administration plan to establish a makeshift field hospital in Kenya to quarantine and treat Americans exposed to or infected with Ebola. 

The court, citing a threat to life, issued its ruling on the day U.S. officials said the facility would begin operating. It has capacity for up to 50 patients potentially exposed during the growing Ebola outbreak, which is centered in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 

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Ja’han Jones

Ja’han Jones is an MS NOW opinion blogger. He previously wrote The ReidOut Blog.