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New Central American Nation Signs Deal With Trump Admin To Receive Third-Country Deportees

The Central American nation of Belize has become the latest to sign an agreement with the Trump administration to receive third-country deportees.

Latin Times

U.S. Sends New Batch Of Deportees To African Country Where Migrants Are Held In Maximum-Security Prison

The Trump administration has conducted a new deportation flight to the African country of Eswatini, where the four people who have already been sent there are held in a maximum security prison

Latin Times

US backtracks on Ghana visa curbs as country becomes deportation hub

The United States has reversed its visa restrictions on Ghana as the west African nation emerges as a key deportation hub in President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. While Accra maintains it has received nothing in return for taking in deportees, one political scientist told RFI an agreement to take in…

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Ghana Deports At Least Six West Africans Expelled By US To Togo

Ghana has deported at least six west Africans to Togo after they were expelled to Accra as part of an immigration crackdown by US President Donald Trump, their lawyers said Tuesday.

International Business Times

West Africans Deported By US To Ghana Sue Over Detention

A group of west Africans deported from the United States have sued the government of Ghana, alleging they were sent to the country despite having deportation protection orders from US immigration authorities.

International Business Times

Ghana Is Latest African Nation to Agree to Receive Third-Country Deportees From the US

The policy has faced sharp criticism from rights groups and legal experts, who question its legality and warn about potential human rights abuses

Latin Times

Ghana becomes fifth African nation to take in US deportees

Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama confirmed on Thursday that his country had started receiving West Africans expelled from the United States.

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Ghana receives 14 West African nationals deported from the US

Ghana's President John Mahama says his country has received a group of 14 West African deportees from the United States

The Independent UK

Ghana declares mourning after ministers killed in helicopter crash

Ghana has declared three days of national mourning after two government ministers were killed in a military helicopter crash on Wednesday.

Radio France Internationale

Modi’s visit to Ghana signals India’s broader Africa strategy. A researcher explains

Ghana has historically been an anchor of Indian enterprise and diplomacy on the African continent.

The Conversation

Ghana's president inaugurates a special task force to tackle illegal gold mining

Ghana’s president has launched a special task force to combat rampant illegal gold mining and smuggling that has long plagued the West African nation

The Independent UK

Interpol issues red notice for Ghana's ex-finance minister over corruption claims

Global police organization Interpol has placed Ghana’s former minister of finance Ken Ofori-Atta on its red notice list over corruption allegations

The Independent UK

Ghana’s poor are the ones who suffer most from corruption: history offers some ideas about fighting back

It didn’t take long for the new government of John Mahama in Ghana to find a dramatic way to highlight its commitment to combating corruption. On 12 February 2025 his special prosecutor declared the previous finance minister a “wanted fugitive” for going abroad to evade questioning for suspected financial irregularities,…

The Conversation

Ghana steps up efforts to mend regional ties with Sahel alliance appointment

Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has appointed a former national security chief as envoy to the alliance formed by Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, signalling his administration's intention to mend ties with the three military-led nations.

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Al Jazeera

As gold prices surge, Ghana faces ‘looming crisis’ over illegal mining

Illegal and small-scale mining known as galamsey is contaminating the country’s rivers and soil, activists say.

The Conversation

Ghana’s new president faces tough regional security problems: why he’s well-placed to tackle them

John Mahama has been sworn in as Ghana’s new president. He inherits a host of security challenges by dint of the country’s position in the west African region, which has become increasingly volatile.

The Conversation

West African military leaders prepare to exit Ecowas regional bloc, raising concerns for stability

Leaders of the west African regional grouping Ecowas approved the long-awaited withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the bloc in December. The three countries have been granted a six-month grace period from January 29, when their exit becomes official, to reconsider their decision.

International Business Times

Ghana's John Mahama Sworn In After Presidential Comeback

Ghana on Tuesday swore in president-elect John Mahama in the capital Accra, with around 20 African leaders in attendance.

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Radio France Internationale

John Mahama takes oath as Ghana's president amid severe economic crisis

The new Ghanaian president, John Mahama, is being sworn in this Tuesday, 7 January, in Accra, as the nation looks for solutions to its worst economic crisis in a generation.

Radio France Internationale

Who were the winners and losers of African democracy in 2024?

In 2024, 18 elections took place on the African continent, from Senegal to South Africa, Algeria to Ghana, with the results an equal mix of democratic success stories and challenges still to overcome.

Radio France Internationale

Ghana scraps visas for African passport holders in landmark shift

Ghana will allow visa-free entry to citizens of all African countries starting in early 2025. The move, approved by President Nana Akufo-Addo in December, makes Ghana the fifth African country to open its borders to all holders of African passports.

Radio France Internationale

Ghana’s president faces tough start as economic crisis drives people to leave

Ghana's president-elect John Mahama, due to be inaugurated on 7 January, will have his work cut out, as the country suffers its worst economic crisis in a generation and a study finds more than 60 percent of Ghanaians want to emigrate.

International Business Times

Ghana's Supreme Court Paves Way For Anti-LGBTQ Law

Ghana's Supreme Court on Wednesday paved the way for a contested bill severely curtailing LGBTQ rights to become law after rejecting two bids to overturn it.

Radio France Internationale

Ghana's Supreme Court paves way for repressive anti-LGBTQ law

Ghana's Supreme Court has paved the way for a contested bill severely curtailing LGBTQ rights to become law after rejecting two bids to overturn it.

The Conversation

Ghana’s election system keeps women out of parliament. How to change that

Voters in Ghana elected the country’s first woman vice president, Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang, in early December 2024. Voters also elected John Mahama as president, a man who had served as president before, from 2013 to 2017.

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