The Latest Breaking News from Eswatini

A lawyer says five men who were deported by the United States to Eswatini last month had served their criminal sentences before they were sent to a prison in the African country

The arrival in Eswatini of five "criminal illegal aliens" deported from the US under Washington's tough anti-immigrant measures has sparked a rare wave of public dissent in the small African kingdom. Rights groups and the main opposition party are concerned over the lack of transparency involved in the operation.

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A spokesperson for the southern African nation says UN will repatriate five men to their home countries, but agency says it has not been contacted

Five immigrants deported by the United States to the small southern African nation of Eswatini under the Trump administration’s secretive third-country program are in prison, where they will be held in solitary confinement for an undetermined time

Eswatini announced on Wednesday that it will repatriate five migrants deported there by the United States

Eswatini is the latest country to accept third-country deportees from the United States

The United States has deported five immigrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos to Eswatini, a small country in southern Africa where the king still holds absolute power

The Trump administration has pushed third-party countries to accept deportees whose home countries will not accept them.