Forced recruitment of Ghanaian nationals working in Libya into the Libyan army

Publisher Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Author Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada
Publication Date 1 September 1989
Citation / Document Symbol GHA1874
Cite as Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Forced recruitment of Ghanaian nationals working in Libya into the Libyan army, 1 September 1989, GHA1874, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ad164.html [accessed 17 September 2023]
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No information on the forced participation of Ghanaian nationals in the Lybian army is available at this time to the I.R.B.D.C.

On the other hand, Ghana has good economic and political relations with Lybia, and Heads of State Jerry Rawlings and Muammar Qadhafi met in Accra in December 1985. [ Africa Confidential, (Volume 26, No. 7), 27 March 1985, p. 8.

 Africa, South of the Sahara, 1989, (London: Europa Publications Ltd.), 1988, p. 520.]

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