MONROVIA, Aug 20 (Reuters) – People deported ​by the U.S. to Liberia will mostly hail from Latin American countries including Cuba and Venezuela, Liberia’s information minister Reuters, as authorities received the first deportation flight on Thursday.

The West African nation announced on Tuesday that it had agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the U.S. in the next 12 months, the latest of several deals the Trump administration has implemented on the continent to accelerate removals. A ​government statement on Tuesday said the deportees would come from “African and Western Hemisphere countries”, without specifying, while the State Department ​did not provide details on nationalities.

Liberia’s information minister, Jerolinmek Piah, told Reuters that “most of the people are from ⁠Latin American countries. Some from Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia and others.” He said the International Organisation for Migration and the U.N. refugee agency would ​help provide services for them, as has been the case elsewhere in Africa.