Eswatini, Africa and deportees
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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.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) was not involved in the removal of third-country migrants from the United States to Eswatini and has not been contacted to helpsend them back home, the agency said on Thursday.
Eswatini says it will repatriate five migrants deported by the US, rejecting claims that their home countries refused to accept them.
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