{"id":233620,"date":"2026-05-18T16:13:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-to-take-in-hundreds-of-west-africans-deported-by-u-s-minister-says\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:13:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:13:04","slug":"sierra-leone-to-take-in-hundreds-of-west-africans-deported-by-u-s-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-to-take-in-hundreds-of-west-africans-deported-by-u-s-minister-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone to Take in Hundreds of West Africans Deported By U.S., Minister Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\"><em> Sierra Leone has agreed to take in hundreds of West African migrants who are being deported by the United States, its foreign minister has said &#8211; the latest deal as part of the Trump administration&#8217;s bid to accelerate removals. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The first flight of so-called third-country deportees will arrive in \u2060Sierra Leone on 20 May transporting 25 nationals from Senegal, Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria, Foreign Minister Timothy Kabba told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/sierra-leone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sierra Leone<\/a> signed a Third Country National Agreement with the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605180009.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone has agreed to take in hundreds of West African migrants who are being deported by the United States, its foreign minister has said &#8211; the latest deal as part of the Trump administration&#8217;s bid to accelerate removals. The first flight of so-called third-country deportees will arrive in \u2060Sierra Leone on 20 May transporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233621,"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\/00580291:52a2651e1e38f5e1c8f5e7422cf70008:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,6752,7249,6529,6572,5941,257,6571,1135,254,2282,4375],"class_list":["post-233620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africans","tag-deported","tag-hundreds","tag-leone","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00580291:52a2651e1e38f5e1c8f5e7422cf70008:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233620","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=233620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}