Sierra Leone receives first group of West African deportees from US

Key points

• The first plane carrying nine migrants from West African countries has arrived from the United States to Sierra Leone, making it the latest African country to receive migrants expelled under President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
• Wednesday’s arrivals at the airport near the capital, Freetown, included five people from Ghana, two from Guinea, one from Senegal and one more from Nigeria, according to Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Internal Affairs’ statement.
• All were “traumatised due to the months in chains during detention in the US,” said Doris Bah, a health ministry official at the scene, adding that most of them wanted to return to their home countries.
• “Some of the deportees were arrested on the streets and their place of work, while another was arrested while playing football in the US,” Bah said.
• They will be housed in a hotel and are expected to return to their countries within two weeks at...