Africa, Eswatini
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The United States has deported five individuals from Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos to Eswatini, a small southern African nation governed by a king who still holds absolute power.
Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, is a landlocked country bordering Mozambique and South Africa. The nation is smaller than Maryland, suffers from severe poverty, high unemployment and the world's highest rate of HIV and AIDS, according to the CIA World Factbook.
The Trump administration sent five deportees to Eswatini, an African kingdom, saying that their own countries would not take them. But Eswatini says it will send them home.
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Ethiopian News Agency - ENA on MSNEswatini to Repatriate US Deportees After Rejecting Role as Dumping GroundEswatini says it will repatriate five migrants deported by the US, rejecting claims that their home countries refused to accept them.
Five inmates are currently housed in our Correctional facilities in isolated units, where similar offenders are kept,' says government spokesperson - Anadolu Ajansı
A repatriation flight organized by the United States has transported a number of foreign nationals to Eswatini, according to an official declaration