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Adam Gabbatt and agencies

Uganda denies reports that it has struck deal with Trump to take in US deportees

three soldiers in uniform stand at an airport as a plane lands
An Eastern airlines plane carrying Venezuelan migrants arrives from the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay on a deportation flight at the Simon Bolivar International Airport, in Maiquetia, Venezuela on 11 April 2025. Photograph: Leonardo Fernández Viloria/Reuters

Uganda said it has not reached any agreement with the US to take in undocumented immigrants, contradicting reports that the east African country had struck a deal with the Trump administration to do so.

Henry Oryem Okello, Uganda’s state minister for foreign affairs, told Reuters the country does not have the capability to take in immigrants. It comes as the US has deported migrants convicted of crimes in the US to non-native countries including South Sudan and Eswatini.

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