{"id":45008,"date":"2026-09-09T08:28:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45008"},"modified":"2026-09-09T08:28:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:28:56","slug":"equatorial-guinea-police-pull-guns-on-migrants-deported-by-us-president-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/equatorial-guinea-police-pull-guns-on-migrants-deported-by-us-president-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Equatorial Guinea police pull guns on migrants deported by US President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Police in Equatorial Guinea pulled firearms on migrants deported there from the United States (US), according to three witnesses and video \u200bfootage shared with\u00a0<i>Reuters<\/i>, intensifying concerns about the treatment and safety of people sent to the Central African nation under a US deportation programme.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Deportees have complained \u200cof inadequate medical care, denial of legal assistance and &#8220;severe psychological distress&#8221; while being held at a hotel in Equatorial Guinea&#8217;s former capital, Malabo.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The altercation on Saturday began as a dispute over access to mobile phones but quickly escalated, with men wearing shirts bearing the words &#8220;National Police&#8221; pointing what appeared to be semi-automatic assault rifles at deportees inside the entrance to the hotel.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One migrant appeared to be kneeling on the ground \u200bwhile others screamed nearby.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>Reuters<\/i>\u00a0reviewed the footage but could not independently verify the events that preceded the confrontation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Trump administration has since last year struck multiple agreements with \u200bAfrican governments to accept migrants who it cannot legally return to their home countries.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Many of those deported under the so called third-country arrangements \u2060had previously won protection from US immigration judges, who found they could face torture or other abuses if repatriated.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":44989,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-45008","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Equatorial Guinea police","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45009,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45008\/revisions\/45009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}