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

The Trump administration sent five deportees to Eswatini, an African kingdom, saying that their own countries would not take them. But Eswatini says it will send them home.

Five deported immigrants from the US have been imprisoned in Eswatini under the Trump administration's third-country plan. Despite US claims of criminal backgrounds, Eswatini aims to repatriate them.

MBABANE (Reuters) -Eswatini's government said on Wednesday that it was holding five third-country nationals deported from the United States in isolated prison units under a deal with President Donald Trump's administration, but sought to eventually send them home.

The U.S. has expelled five immigrant men to Eswatini in southern Africa, where local authorities say they are holding them in jail before they deport them back to their home countries of Vietnam, Laos, Jamaica, Cuba and Yemen. This comes after the Supreme ...