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

The US says it has deported what it described as five "criminal illegal aliens" to the southern African kingdom of Eswatini.

International law is clear that no one shall be sent anywhere where there are substantial grounds for believing that the person would be in danger of being subjected to serious human rights violations such as torture,