Uganda said on Friday it has received eight deportees from the US, the first such transfer after both countries last year signed a bilateral migration cooperation agreement.
The agreement designates the east African country as a safe third country destination for migrants Washington cannot return to their home countries.
The foreign ministry said: “Eight individuals, whose cases had been reviewed and approved by a USA immigration judge, arrived in Uganda from the USA on April 1.”
Other details could not be disclosed due to privacy concerns, it added.
The deportees are of African origin, the statement said.
On Thursday the Uganda Law Society, in a post on the X platform, said 12 people had arrived in Uganda, and added the deportees had been subjected to what it described as an “undignified, harrowing and dehumanising process”.
The deportation highlights the expansion of President Donald Trump’s third-country deportations policy, which has faced legal and human rights criticisms over concerns it sends individuals to unfamiliar nations with no personal ties.
Reuters
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