{"id":241570,"date":"2026-08-20T07:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-to-take-in-up-to-1200-u-s-deportees-within-a-year\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T07:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:52:59","slug":"liberia-to-take-in-up-to-1200-u-s-deportees-within-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-to-take-in-up-to-1200-u-s-deportees-within-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia to Take in Up to 1,200 U.S. Deportees Within a Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\"><em> Liberia has announced it will receive up to 1,200 foreign nationals deported from the United States &#8211; one of the largest known deals struck with African countries as part of President Donald Trump&#8217;s unprecedented bid to drive out undocumented migrants. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/liberia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liberia<\/a> intends to accept up to 1,200 persons to be transferred from the United States of America within a year,&#8221; the West African country&#8217;s government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.micat.gov.lr\/media\/press-releases\/liberia-announces-humanitarian-arrangement-united-states\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">A first group of 20 deportees are due to arrive Thursday, it said, adding&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608200111.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberia has announced it will receive up to 1,200 foreign nationals deported from the United States &#8211; one of the largest known deals struck with African countries as part of President Donald Trump&#8217;s unprecedented bid to drive out undocumented migrants. &#8220;Liberia intends to accept up to 1,200 persons to be transferred from the United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":241571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,18291,4712,1107,257,254,2282,6537],"class_list":["post-241570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deportees","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s","tag-year"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241570","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=241570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}