The migrants have been detained for five days in Ghana in squalid conditions and surrounded by armed military guards in an open-air detention facility, called Dema Camp, the complaint says. Conditions are abysmal and deplorable, with tents for shelter and little running water. The migrants are not from Ghana and have been told they will be sent to other countries that have been determined to be too dangerous by U.S. immigration judges
A member of the House of Lords asked a senior British diplomat to help a Ghanaian goldmining venture in which he held shares, claiming it was in the UK national interest, the Guardian can disclose. The revelation will add to concerns about apparent breaches of parliamentary lobbying rules by Richard Dannatt, a former head of the British army. The peer is already under scrutiny over his lobbying for several companies, leading in two cases to investigations by the Lords' standards body.