US deports criminals to African nation where political parties banned

Eswatini’s King Mswati III rules by decree (Jason DeCrow/AP)

The US government has sent five men who it describes as “barbaric” criminals to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the largely secretive third-country deportation programme.

The US has already deported eight men to another African country, South Sudan, after the Supreme Court lifted restrictions on sending people to countries where they have no ties.