Sierra Leone has become the latest African country to receive migrants deported from the United States amid Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration.

🌐 Here's What Happened

A plane carrying nine West African migrants landed at Sierra Leone's international airport, just outside the capital, Freetown, on Wednesday morning.

Last week, Foreign Minister Timothy Musa Kabba told the Reuters news agency his country had agreed to accept up to 300 people a year expelled by the United States.

However, he added that the new arrivals must originally come from member states of Ecowas, west Africa's economic bloc.

📌 Key Details

The US has already sent deportees to several other African countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana and South Sudan.

Dozens of migrants have been flown to third countries - ie nations that the deportees had not lived in prior to arriving in the US - since President Donald Trump came to power in January last year.

The mass deportation of illegal migrants was a key part of his campaign for re-election.

On Wednesday, the BBC witnessed the nine deportees arrive at Sierra Leone's airport via a Boeing charter flight.

The group consisted of seven men and two women, all of whom looked forlorn. One deportee even resisted leaving the plane, before being physically removed.

Five are from Ghana, two from Guinea and one each from Nigeria and Senegal, officials told the BBC.

📰 Source: BBC Africa