The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has refuted claims that the UK government is drawing up a plan with Ghana to resettle migrants to the United Kingdom.
In a statement issued Tuesday (18 January), the Ministry said “The Ministry of Foreign and Regional Integration wishes to state categorically that Ghana has not engaged with the UK on any such plan and does not intend to consider any such operation in the future.
“It is recalled in this regard that the Ministry on the 8th of September 2021 debunked in a tweet a news item on Sky UK about a possible Ghana interest in a partnership agreement with the UK to host deported or returned migrants of Third Country from the UK.”
Read the full statement below:
Migrant crisis
According to the UK Home Office, almost 100 illegal migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats on Monday 10 January alone.
The government department said 96 people crossed in three boats. French officials also succeeded in preventing one boat with 56 people on board from making the same journey that day, it said.
The number of people who crossed the English Channel in small boats in 2021 was three times the number in 2020. Official figures show at least 28,431 migrants made the journey last year, despite huge UK investment in France to prevent crossings.
On 24 November 2021, at least 27 people died when their boat sank as they attempted to cross the Channel, the narrow stretch of sea between the southern coast of England and mainland Europe. The same month saw a new record for a single day when 1,185 people reached British shores aboard 33 boats.
In 2020 the largest number of arrivals on a single day was 416, a record set in September.
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