Sierra Leone has received its first deportation flight from the United States under President Donald Trump's ongoing immigration enforcement campaign, with nine migrants — nationals of Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea, and Senegal — landing at Freetown International Airport on Wednesday. A health ministry official described the deportees as traumatised after "months in chains" during detention in the US, noting that some had been arrested at their workplaces or on the street. Sierra Leone has agreed to accept up to 300 US deportees per year from ECOWAS (the Economic Community of West African States) member nations, with Washington providing $1.5 million to cover humanitarian and operational costs — an arrangement Human Rights Watch has criticised as an "opaque deal" that violates international human rights law.