Liberia agrees to accept 1,200 foreign deportees from the US

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Liberia has agreed to accept 1,200 deportees from the United States, characterizing the arrangement as purely humanitarian and stating it is receiving no compensation. This decision places Liberia among several African nations, including Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sierra Leone, that have made similar agreements with the US. These deals involve individuals whom the US cannot legally repatriate to their home countries. While the US defends these arrangements as lawful, rights groups have criticized them as opaque and have raised concerns about deportees being forced back to countries they fled. Eswatini, for instance, confirmed receiving over $5 million from the Trump administration last year. Liberia maintains its participation is humanitarian, though it will receive US support for migration system management.

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Liberia has not demanded or received compensation for its consent to participate in the program.

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Several African countries, including Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, DR Congo, and Sierra Leone, have deals to receive deportees from the US.

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Liberia has agreed to accept 1,200 foreign deportees from the US.

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Eswatini received $5.1m from the Trump administration for accepting deportees.

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Ghana has faced legal suits over accusations of forcing deportees back to countries they fled, violating their rights.

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Several African countries, including Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone, have already struck deals to receive those the US cannot legally send back to their home countries.The US has defended the third-country deals as lawful, despite rights groups criticising the arrangements as opaque and many of the deportees ultimately being repatriated.Ghana has faced legal suits over accusations that is has forced deportees from the US back to countries they fled, in violation of their rights.On Tuesday, the Eswatini government said two people who had been deported from the US to the southern African kingdom had voluntarily returned to their home countries: Mauritania and DR Congo.Eswatini confirmed last year that it had received $5.1m (£3.8m) from the Trump administration amid heavy criticism from rights groups.Piah said Liberia had "not demanded or received any compensation or promise of rewards in exchange for its consent to participate in the programme". He insisted it was "entirely humanitarian", but added that the West African nation would be getting US support to manage the programme and broadly strengthen the migration system. The US State Department has not commented on the scheme.

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