{"id":30878,"date":"2026-04-05T13:41:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30878"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:28:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:28:38","slug":"drc-to-receive-third-country-deportees-under-new-deal-with-us","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/drc-to-receive-third-country-deportees-under-new-deal-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC to receive third-country deportees under new deal with US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will receive third-country nationals deported from the United States (US) under a new deal with the US President Donald Trump administration, the government in Kinshasa said in a statement on Sunday.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The government said it will receive deportees starting in April but did not say how many it had agreed to take.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The arrangement will be paid for by the US, with no cost to the DRC \u00a0government, the statement said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Facilities have been prepared near the capital Kinshasa to accommodate the deportees, it said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The US has sent third-country deportees to several African countries including Ghana, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and eSwatini, drawing criticism from legal experts and rights groups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The agreement coincides with an effort by the Trump administration to implement a peace deal between DRC and Rwanda and an agreement ensuring US access to DRC critical minerals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30640,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-30878","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The government said it will receive deportees starting in April","published_date":"","news_description":"The government said it will receive deportees starting in April","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30880,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30878\/revisions\/30880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}