Accra

Kotoka Airport Detention Centre (Detention Cells)

Status

In use

2025

Type: Transit centre (Administrative)

Custodial Authority: Not Available

Management: Not Available

Detains: Not Available

Conditions complaints? Capacity Reported population
YES

2025

No Data
No Data
Ghana

7,479

Refugees

9,855

Asylum Applications

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FACILITY NAMES
Kotoka Airport Detention Centre (Detention Cells)
Location

Country: Ghana

City & Region: Accra, Africa

Latitude, Longitude: 5.605106, -0.168650

MANAGEMENT & BUDGET

Center Status
Status
Year
In use
2025
Last documented use
2018
Facility type
Category
Type
Year
Administrative
Transit centre
2018

DETAINEES

SIZE & POPULATION

LENGTH OF DETENTION

OUTCOMES

CONDITIONS

Inadequate conditions
Inadequate Conditions
Obvs. Date
2025
2025
2025

CARCERAL INDICATORS

STAFF

SEGREGATION

CELLS

COMMUNAL SPACE & ACTIVITIES

HEALTH

MONITORING & ACCESS

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

NEWS & TESTIMONY

2025

In a sworn declaration submitted to the U.S District Court for the District of Columbia on 11 September 2025, a Gambian women who was part of a group of 14 detainees in the US deported to Ghana as part of Trump's third country removal programme, states: "I was held in the room at the airport for five days with no access to phones, no showers, and no change of clothes."