{"id":46991,"date":"2026-10-01T09:48:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=46991"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:48:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:48:49","slug":"burundi-to-take-third-country-deportees-from-us","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/burundi-to-take-third-country-deportees-from-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi to take third country deportees from US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Burundi has \u200bagreed to join a clutch of other African nations in receiving \u200cmigrants from other countries deported from the United States (US) under President Donald Trump&#8217;s hardline immigration policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">However, Bujumbura will only accept those not accused of crime or\u00a0\u200bterrorism links, said Nancy Ninette Mutoni, Spokesperson for President\u00a0\u200bEvariste Ndayishimiye.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Tuesday&#8217;s announcement gave no details of numbers, timing, or \u2060financial details.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Washington has sent so-called third-country deportees to some half \u200ba dozen African nations under opaque deals that Senate Democrats say have \u200bcost tens of millions of Dollars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In many cases, deportees had secured legal protections from immigration courts in the US against repatriation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">But rights groups say the \u200bthird-country deals allow the US to circumvent those protections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Mutoni said \u200bpreparations were underway to arrange accommodation, living conditions and integration into communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;Receiving them \u200crequires \u2060serious planning, where they will stay, what they will eat and how they will live alongside the local population,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31954,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-46991","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Burundi has \u200bagreed to receive migrants from other countries deported ","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46991","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46992,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46991\/revisions\/46992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=46991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}