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Last official use of Fort Ussher (prison part) as: Sudanese Refugee Camp.
Accra, April 16, 2005 - GNA - Government on Friday said she has temporarily relocated the alleged asylum seekers from the Darfur Region in Sudan from the premises of the Bureau of Ghana Languages to the Ussher Fort. |
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A statement issued by the Interior Minister, Papa Owusu Ankomah said the Ministry considered Ussher Fort to be the safest and most secured location presently available to accommodate the persons while their applications for refugee status were being processed according to the laws of Ghana and the nation's international obligations. The Ministry on Friday directed that the strangers be transferred immediately to a more secured location and that mandated the Ghana Refugee Board, with the support of the Ghana Immigration Service to start interviewing them to determine how they entered the country and about their general status.
Those identified as genuine asylum seekers would be accorded all the rights due them in accordance with the laws of Ghana and Ghana's international humanitarian obligations and those found not to be genuine would be repatriated to their countries of origin forthwith.
Fort Ussher (Fort Crevecoer), a former prison where Kwame Nkrumah was once held...
Dutch post built in 1642. Enlarged and named Fort Crevecoeur, in 1652. Temporarily in British hands, in 1782. Returned to the Dutch in 1785. Abandoned in 1816. Damaged by earthquake, in 1862. Transferred to British, rebuilt and renamed Ussher Fort, in 1868.
Fort Ussher (Fort Crevecoer), a former prison where Kwame Nkrumah was once held...
Dutch post built in 1642. Enlarged and named Fort Crevecoeur, in 1652. Temporarily in British hands, in 1782. Returned to the Dutch in 1785. Abandoned in 1816. Damaged by earthquake, in 1862. Transferred to British, rebuilt and renamed Ussher Fort, in 1868.
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