Inside the luxury hotel at the center of Trump’s deportation deal with Equatorial Guinea

Migrants sent from the US are being held at the Bamy hotel against their will and pressured to leave for their home countries Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email At first glance, the hotel looks like any other on this tropical island off the central African coast, with its palm tree-lined driveway, marble-floored foyer and portrait of the oil-rich country’s president hanging behind a mahogany reception desk. Yet the eerily empty Bamy hotel is not a refuge for adventure-seeking tourists or international business travelers these days. Since late last year, only a small number of people have been staying there, and they aren’t on vacation. They are being held against their will. Continue reading...

Original source: Guardian