Overview

• Ghana has confirmed receiving West African nationals transferred by the United States, with an initial group of 14 disclosed and reports indicating up to 28 arrivals after a second flight.
• Lawyers say the first group had won protections in U.S. immigration courts against return to their home countries, yet some were forwarded to origin states, including a Gambian man now in hiding.
• Deportees report more than two weeks under military guard at Ghana’s Dema Camp in poor conditions before 8–10 people were driven to the Aflao crossing and left inside Togo without identity documents.
• A Nigerian and a Liberian deportee describe being left to fend for themselves in Lomé, while one alleges ICE agents beat him after he initially refused to board a U.S. military flight to an undisclosed destination.
• Ghana frames its intake as a humanitarian step, a political analyst links Washington’s reversal of visa restrictions to the arrangement, and the U.S. State Department says it will pursue all lawful removals.