A lawyer for 11 west Africans deported by the US to Ghana said they had been returned to their home countries despite many fearing for their safety. Ghana’s president, John Mahama, said last week that his country had accepted 14 west African nationals deported by the US and was ready to accept 40 more. The 11 men filed a legal case seeking to be released. Of the 11 men, six were sent to Togo and another released to a relative in Ghana, he said. A Mexican who the US said had been serving a life sentence for murder was returned to Mexico earlier this month from South Sudan, having been one of eight men deported there in July.