BANGUI, Central African Republic: An Iranian woman is among around two dozen migrants who arrived Friday in the Central African Republic on a deportation flight from the United States, lawyers said, in the latest example of the Trump administration’s widely criticized deals with African and Latin American nations to take third-country deportees. The Central African Republic, a deeply impoverished country plagued by conflict, is one of at least nine African nations with this type of agreement.

The Trump administration plans to deport a number of Iranians and other migrants to Central African Republic, a chronically unstable country racked by

The Iranians include two women who face potential torture and persecution if they are forced to go back to Iran, their lawyer, Emily Trostle, said.