Ghana Receives Two Guantanamo Prisoners
Ghana receives two Guantanamo prisoners The US Department of Defense has announced that two Guantanamo Bay prisoners have been transferred to Ghana. Six years after President Obama ordered the closure of the facility, 105 prisoners remain. Two men, Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih al-Dhuby, were released from detention at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay and transferred to Ghana, the US Defense Department said on Wednesday. @YouTube video youtu.be/_YLGH8vTwBI?a Documentary on Access to Clean Water Both men are from Yemen and had been recommended for release since 2009. However, conditions in Yemen have been deemed too unstable for the men to be released there. "We have indicated our willingness to accept them for a period of two years, after which they may leave the country," a statement on Ghana's Foreign Ministry website read. The two men are the first Guantanamo detainees to be released to Ghana. "The United States is grateful to th...