AGP Executive Report
Last update: 30 minutes agoDeportation Deal Expands: Sierra Leone has agreed to take in hundreds of West Africans deported from the US, with the first flight due May 20 carrying 25 people from Senegal, Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria. The deal covers up to 300 ECOWAS citizens per year (max 25 a month), but details on what deportees will be allowed to do in Sierra Leone remain unclear, and rights groups have raised concerns about transfers and treatment elsewhere. Diplomatic Pressure on Returns: The same crackdown is also drawing international pushback, including a UN appeal to Equatorial Guinea to halt deporting people to places where they could face torture or death. Regional Business & Politics: Meanwhile, Nigeria’s President Tinubu is in Kigali pitching Nigeria as an investment destination at the Africa CEO Forum, while oil-sector scrutiny continues across the region, including reports that Nigeria’s oil wealth hasn’t translated into poverty reduction.
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