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.

Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, is the only nation in Africa where the monarch retains full executive power

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.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The United States has sent five immigrants it says were convicted of serious crimes to the African nation of Eswatini, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed, in an expansion of the Trump administration’s largely secretive third-country deportation program.

Eswatini’s government said on Wednesday that it was holding five third-country nationals deported from the United States in isolated prison units under a deal with President Donald Trump’s administration,

A secretive deportation deal between the United States and Eswatini is triggering unease in the tiny southern African kingdom, after five foreign nationals convicted of violent crimes, including child rape and murder, were flown from the US into the ...