US deports immigrants to African country of Eswatini amid rights concerns
The Trump administration has pushed third-party countries to accept deportees whose home countries allegedly will not accept them.
By Al Jazeera Staff
Published On 16 Jul 2025
16 Jul 2025
The government of the tiny, landlocked African country of Eswatini has confirmed that it received five individuals deported from the United States under President Donald Trump.
In a statement on Wednesday, a spokesperson for the Eswatini government said the deportations were “the result of months of robust high-level engagements”.
“The five prisoners are in the country and are housed in Correctional facilities within isolated units, ‘where similar offenders are kept’,” spokesperson Thabile Mdluli wrote.
But she appeared to concede there were human rights concerns about accepting deported individuals whose countries of origin were not Eswatini.
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