Ghana has received a new group of 19 West African migrants expelled from the United States, under the migration agreement signed between the two countries last September. The deal requires Accra to take in irregular West African migrants deported from U.S. territory.
The operation included a distressing scene as Ghanaian immigration officers forcibly removed a Sierra Leonean woman in her fifties from a hotel in northern Accra, placing her in a truck bound for the airport for deportation.
The incident occurred just one day after her arrival in Ghana along with 18 other undocumented migrants who had spent months in U.S. immigration detention centers.
Ghanaian authorities also repatriated ten Nigerian migrants, with their companions saying they have had no contact with them since.
The remaining eight migrants — from Mali, Guinea, Senegal and Sierra Leone — are currently held in a hotel under heavy military guard, expressing fear that they may soon face the same fate.
