A group of 14 West Africans deported from the US to Ghana have all been sent to their home countries of Nigeria and Gambia, a Ghanaian government spokesman said on Monday.
The 13 Nigerians and one Gambian have left for their home countries.
Authorities in Ghana defended accepting the deportees on humanitarian grounds.
Ghana’s Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa pushed back on criticism that the decision was an endorsement of US President Donald Trump’s migration policies, saying Ghana accepted the third-country deportees “purely on humanitarian grounds.”
At a press briefing in the capital, Accra on Monday, Ablakwa said Ghana did not receive any financial compensation from the US over the deportation.