{"id":206838,"date":"2025-09-11T18:31:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-becomes-fifth-african-nation-to-take-in-u-s-deportees\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T18:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:31:56","slug":"ghana-becomes-fifth-african-nation-to-take-in-u-s-deportees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-becomes-fifth-african-nation-to-take-in-u-s-deportees\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Becomes Fifth African Nation to Take in U.S. Deportees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em> Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama confirmed on Thursday that his country had started receiving West Africans expelled from the United States. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/africa\/20250107-john-mahama-takes-oath-as-ghana-s-president-amid-severe-economic-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mahama<\/a> said 14 deportees &#8211; among them Nigerians and one Gambian &#8211; had arrived in Ghana before being sent on to their home countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">&#8220;We were approached by the US to accept third-party nationals who were being removed from the US and we agreed with them that West African nationals were acceptable because all our fellow West Africans don&#8217;t need a visa&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509110286.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama confirmed on Thursday that his country had started receiving West Africans expelled from the United States. Mahama said 14 deportees &#8211; among them Nigerians and one Gambian &#8211; had arrived in Ghana before being sent on to their home countries. &#8220;We were approached by the US to accept third-party nationals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":206839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671400:1fd325bded1ecc9111e0aaf40abecb52:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4380,18291,4508,4509,10970,257,254,2282],"class_list":["post-206838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-deportees","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-nation","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671400:1fd325bded1ecc9111e0aaf40abecb52:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}