On January 20, 2025, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order paving the way for the deportation of those he described as illegal immigrants. While signing it, he said he was protecting the American people against invasion.

In the months that followed, US authorities placed dozens of immigrants on their deportation list, with the Migration Policy Institute reporting that the number of immigration arrests rose significantly. But there was a catch: some countries were not willing to receive back citizens who had fallen victim to Trump’s deportation spree. Trump had to find a way to dispose of the deportees, and Africa came to his mind.

President Trump then approached a section of African leaders for bilateral agreements on receiving the deportees. This has erupted into controversy, with the African Union denouncing these arrangements as a policy that risks turning the continent into a “dumping zone” for arbitrary expulsions.

Livingstone Sewanyana, Executive Director of the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI) based in Kampala, Uganda, argues that by accepting deportees labelled by the Trump administration as “illegal immigrants,”........

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