France, Sept. 11 -- Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama confirmed on Thursday that his country had started receiving West Africans expelled from the United States.

Mahama said 14 deportees - among them Nigerians and one Gambian - had arrived in Ghana before being sent on to their home countries.

"We were approached by the US to accept third-party nationals who were being removed from the US and we agreed with them that West African nationals were acceptable because all our fellow West Africans don't need a visa to come to our country," Mahama told journalists at a press conference.

He did not say how many people Ghana would ultimately agree to take in.

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