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

US President Donald Trump hosting the signing ceremony of a peace deal with the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame and the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix Tshisekedi at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, on 4 December, 2025. AFP - ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS

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 UN sources and two diplomats briefed by US 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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