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Under a deal with Washington in August, Uganda agreed to take in U.S. deportees who believe it unsafe to return to their countries of origin.

Some deportees were flown to an El Salvador prison.

Accra recently accepted dozens of deportees from the United States -- exclusively West Africans -- on what the government described as humanitarian grounds, despite domestic criticism over the arrangement.

When US officials forced him to board a plane carrying more than 150 deportees heading to Managua, Nicaragua, he remembers being the only non–Latin American on the plane.

A document revealed by Human Rights Watch in September and seen by AFP said Eswatini agreed to take 160 deportees in exchange for $5.1 million to "build its border and migration management capacity".