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US backtracks on Ghana visa curbs as country becomes deportation hub

Ghana's President John Mahama says the agreement to take in west Africans deported from the US is being done on "humanitarian" grounds. © Ghanian presidency via AP

The United States has reversed its visa restrictions on Ghana as the west African nation emerges as a key deportation hub in President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. While Accra maintains it has received nothing in return for taking in deportees, one political scientist told RFI an agreement to take in more west African deportees was the "only plausible explanation".

Earlier this month, Ghanaian President John Mahama revealed that the country was accepting west Africans deported by the United States – the fifth African nation to do so.

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