Three women who fled LGBTQ+ persecution in Ghana and had been granted protection from deportation in the United States were sent to Cameroon in January 2026 as part of the Trump administration's secretive third-country deportation agreements, part of a group of 36 migrants. According to DW reporting, the women described being shackled during the process. They were held for about two months in a government compound in Yaounde and were released only after staging a hunger strike; they must still return to the compound each night and cannot work while their asylum claims are pending. Their lawyer has raised concerns about sending them to a country where they could face further persecution.