Mbabane. Upon learning through the US embassy that President Donald Trump was looking for African nations to take in deported third-country migrants, Eswatini was one of the first to volunteer despite questions over the legality of the program.
According to three senior government sources briefed on the matter, Prime Minister Russell Dlamini met then-Acting US Charge d'Affaires Caitlin Piper in mid-February last year to discuss the matter in private.
Dlamini took the proposal to King Mswati III, who marked 40 years on the throne of the mountainous southern African nation in April. Mswati listened and immediately agreed to host the deportees, two of the sources said, describing previously unreported closed-door talks.
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