The US administration has turned to the African continent as another destination to deport migrants who it says are convicted criminals.
While dozens have been flown to countries in Central and South America, 12 men from countries including Mexico, Myanmar and Yemen were last month sent to Eswatini and South Sudan. One South Sudanese was also flown back home.
Other African countries are also reportedly being courted by the US to accept people, whose home countries will not take them back, according to the US authorities.
President Donald Trump's mass deportation pledge drew support during his campaign last year. But UN rights experts and human rights groups are alarmed by what has happened and argue that these removals to a nation that is not the migrant's place of origin – known as third countries - could violate international law.
Third-country deportations can be legal - but only under certain conditions.
