Congo in talks with US over third-country deportations, sources say


FILE PHOTO: A view shows buildings behind a street of the Gombe area, ahead of the announcement of provisional results of the December presidential election, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo December 30, 2023. REUTERS/Justin Makangara/File Photo

KINSHASA, April 3 (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo is in talks with ⁠the Trump administration about receiving deportees from other countries, two government sources ‌in Kinshasa told Reuters, in what would be the latest of several such agreements reached in Africa.

The discussions, also described by three U.N. sources and two diplomats briefed by U.S. officials, underscore Washington's growing reliance ​on so-called third-country deportations to speed up removals of migrants ⁠who entered or remain in ⁠the United States without authorisation.

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