Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States in the next 12 months, the government said this week.
It said that the first group of 20 were expected to arrive on Thursday.
Donald Trump's administration has recently struck several deals with African countries to take in people it cannot legally send back to their home countries — typically because of US court orders ruling that doing so would put them in danger.
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What did Liberia say about the agreement?
