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\n Recent reports indicate that a team of lawyers initiated a lawsuit against Ghana at Africa\u2019s top human rights court on behalf of the deportees sent to the country under the US\u2019s third-country deportation initiative.
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\n Last year, Ghana, much like Eswatini, announced that it would be taking in deported citizens from the U.S., shortly after which the country\u2019s president, John Dramani Mahama, confirmed that Ghana had received a group of 14 deportees, among them Nigerians and one Gambian.
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\n This move immediately spurred backlash, as many faulted the country\u2019s decision to go along with the US\u2019s deportation scheme.
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\n 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.
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\n The plan allows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to deport migrants with as little as six hours’ notice, raising worries about due process and safety. Human rights experts fear that transporting vulnerable people to new nations may subject them to persecution and misery.
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\n Ghana is now facing a lawsuit for going along with this plan.
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\n Lawsuit against Ghana for US deportation plan
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