Uncertainty Over Fate of Liberian Journalist

Uncertainty Over Fate of Liberian Journalist

Email This Page The whereabouts of Liberian refugee journalist Darryl Nmah were unclear on Wednesday, one day after he was to have been deported to Liberia on the grounds that he did not have a work permit. Various sources contacted by IRIN at Ghana's Interior Ministry, Immigration Service and 'Radio Gold', the private station where Nmah was employed, were unable to say whether he had left the country.

The international media rights watchdog, Reporters sans frontieres, had protested against his deportation in a letter to the Interior Ministry. It said "the intensification of the war in Liberia and the repression against local journalists" would endanger Nmah's life, and requested that the Ghanaian authorities take appropriate steps to allow him to work freely.

According to RSF, 97 percent of Liberian refugees in Ghana had no official documents even though some had been living there since 1990.