Deported to nowhere

They are Cuban, Vietnamese, Iranian, Uzbek, and they wake up in Africa. Of the 28,000 immigrants deported from the United States between January 2025 and August 2026, more than 500 were sent to the continent, according to the Deportation Data Project quoted by Le Monde Afrique; most have no link with the countries receiving them. Under the video, a reader: “So what is international law for, in the end?”

Twenty-one days

In the other direction, the door closes: since Tuesday, any traveller who has passed through the Democratic Republic of Congo must declare it on entering the United States and observe a 21-day delay, the incubation period of Ebola. The epidemic has passed 5,300 deaths, the vast majority in the DRC.

Accra, 1966

And then Accra, 1966. Footage saved during the coup in Ghana resurfaces thanks to IShowSpeed: the American streamer is producing a documentary on the memory of African independence. “For once an influencer makes a documentary about other people’s lives”, writes a reader. Deported on one side, filmed on the other: who tells Africa’s story this morning?