The authorities said that the virus had been diagnosed in a man arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo and that they were taking measures to prevent any spread.
The Kenyan cabinet secretary for health, Aden Duale, at a news conference in Nairobi on Tuesday. He said the man with Ebola had lived in Congo for seven years, and fell sick a month ago.
What happened in Mangala, where residents were left with little outside support, helps explain how this outbreak became the worst seen in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The conflict is raising fears of a regional war in the Horn of Africa, drawing in foreign powers including Eritrea, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
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