Ghana: Treatment of refugee returnees
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 July 1990 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | GHA6460 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Ghana: Treatment of refugee returnees, 1 July 1990, GHA6460, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6acca4b.html [accessed 10 October 2022] |
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Please find attached the following documents on the treatment of asylum seekers who returned to Ghana:
"Ghana Presents Citizens Detained for Attempt to "Embarrass the Government"", Accra Home Service [Accra, in English], 24 February 1987 at 2000GMT, reported by the British Broadcasting Corporation, Summary of World Broadcasts, 27 February 1987, ME/8503/B/1.
"Warning About False Evidence to Help Ghanaians Seeking Asylum Abroad", Accra Home Service, 30 May 1984 at 1300GMT, reported by the BBC-SWB, 2 June 1984, ME/7659/B/1.
For a complement of information, please find attached a few documents on the return of Ghanaian refugees returned from Nigeria:
Clarity, James F.
"Ghana Refugees May Reach 2 Million", The New York Times, 3 February 1983, p.A1.
"Ghanaian Reports on the Refugees Returning From Nigeria", Accra Home Service, 5 February 1983 at 0700 and 1100GMT, reported by the BBC-SWB, 7 February 1983, ME/7251/B/7.
"The Return of Refugees to Ghana", Accra Radio, 9 February 1983, reported by the BBC-SWB, 10 February 1983, ME/7254/ii.
"Ghanaian Leader's Injunction to Refugees", Accra Radio,
9 February 1983, reported by the BBC-SWB, 11 February 1983, ME/7255/ii.
"Ghana's Measures to Deal with the Refugee Problem", Accra Home Service, 7 February 1987 at 1800 and 2000GMT, reported by the BBC-SWB, 9 February 1987, ME/7253/B/1.
