DAKAR, Senegal: The West African nation of Ghana is the latest in a growing list of African countries that have received third-country nationals deported by the US or agreed to receive them, a controversial approach whose legality lawyers for the deportees have questioned.
Other African nations that have received such deportees from the US include Eswatini, Rwanda and South Sudan. Uganda has agreed to a deal with the US to take certain deported immigrants, although it is yet to receive any.
Experts have said some African countries may seek to facilitate the deportation programs in order to earn goodwill in negotiations with the Trump administration on policies such as trade, migration and aid.
Ghanaian authorities said on Monday that the 14 deportees received last week have been returned to their home countries. They defended the decision on humanitarian grounds, although lawyers for the migrants say the deportation violated international human rights law and rights of the deportees.
Deportees were sent to Ghana at short notice
