Anger in Kenya against the U.S. over Ebola. The plan of Donald Trump’s administration to build a quarantine center to house Americans who have been exposed to the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo or Uganda has outraged many Kenyans, who took to the streets to protest a measure that, they believe, puts the country’s public health at risk.

The image of a safe haven of the Persian Gulf countries, on which their opulent economies were based, has been disrupted by the Iran war. Maintaining the perception of security has become an imperative for these monarchies, even if it infringes on the freedom of expression of their citizens. Amnesty International (AI) denounced on Monday a “campaign of repression,” resulting in more than a thousand detainees accused of sympathizing with Iran during the United States and Israel war against the Islamic Republic.