Eswatini planned to ultimately repatriate the five to their home countries with the help of a United Nations agency.

Eswatini, a country of 1.2 million people bordering South Africa, is the latest nation to accept third-country deportees from the U.S. The Trump administration has sent hundreds of Venezuelans and others to Costa Rica, El Salvador and Panama, and deported eight men earlier this month to South Sudan, also an African country.

The Trump administration has pushed third-party countries to accept deportees whose home countries will not accept them.