The United States’ plan, spearheaded by the country’s president, Donald Trump, to send illegal migrants to third-party countries has resulted in a lawsuit against the West African country of Ghana.
Recent reports indicate that a team of lawyers initiated a lawsuit against Ghana at Africa’s top human rights court on behalf of the deportees sent to the country under the US’s third-country deportation initiative.
Last year, Ghana, much like Eswatini, announced that it would be taking in deported citizens from the U.S., shortly after which the country’s president, John Dramani Mahama, confirmed that Ghana had received a group of 14 deportees, among them Nigerians and one Gambian.
This move immediately spurred backlash, as many faulted the country’s decision to go along with the US’s deportation scheme.
Soon after resuming office for a second term last year, Donald Trump's administration passed a contentious deportation program that makes it possible for migrants to be deported not just to their home countries, but also to "third-party countries" with which they have no links.
