Ghana faces Ecowas court complaint on US deportations

Advocacy groups have filed a complaint ⁠on ⁠behalf of people deported from ⁠the US to Ghana by the Trump administration with ​the regional bloc representing West Africa. US News reports that the complaint, known ‌as an application for a ‌case, was filed against Ghana before the Community Court of Justice of the ⁠Economic Community ⁠of West African States (Ecowas) on behalf of 27 deportees. At ​least 60 people were deported to Ghana in total starting in September 2025, in what the Trump administration describes as a strategy ‘to end illegal and mass immigration and bolster America’s border ​security’. The complaint said the deportees told authorities they had been granted protections in the ⁠US but ⁠most of them were ⁠removed within ​hours or days of their arrival in Ghana to the countries they had escaped. Some ​were stranded in third ⁠countries with no means to continue their journeys. Reuters could not immediately reach spokespeople at Ecowas and the Government of Ghana for comment.