International Law and Refund of Deportation Bills: The Case of Nigeria and Ghana versus South Africa

International law and reimbursement of deportation bills is quite interesting a topic in intra-African relations for various reasons. First, there is no general rule regulating the need to reimburse countries that deport or repatriate unwanted people. Secondly, the politics of refund of deportation bills is not only creating a diplomatic row between and among Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana, but is also raising several questions about the future of continental unity and integration. Thirdly, in the absence of a regulating rule of law, it is either the deporting state accepts to fund the deportation as a result of its own policy of unwanted i…