Burkina Faso, ruled by a junta hostile to the West, has refused to take in people kicked out of the United States, in a snub to one of US President Donald Trump’s signature migration policies.

Since Trump’s return to the White House, his administration has made deporting people to third countries, often to nations they have no connection to, part of a sweeping immigration crackdown.

In Africa, Eswatini, Ghana, Rwanda and South Sudan have all accepted people expelled from the United States in recent months.

However, late yesterday, Burkina Faso’s foreign affairs minister said the West African country had refused Washington’s overtures.