Africa, Eswatini
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Blavity on MSNTrump’s DHS Sends Migrants To Eswatini, Africa’s Last Absoulte MonarchyOn July 4, the U.S. deported eight migrants to another African country, South Sudan, after holding them for weeks in a converted shipping container at a military base in Djibouti. The men had initially boarded a flight in May, which was later diverted, The Guardian reported.
It is not clear if the men are being held in a detention centre, what their legal status is or what Eswatini’s plans are for them.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The United States has sent five men to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday.