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Uganda strikes deal with Washington over migrants deported from the US

Venezuelan migrants deported from the US arrive at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Venezuela, 20 February, 2025. AFP - PEDRO MATTEY

Uganda – which has Africa's largest refugee population – has become the latest African country to agree to take in failed asylum seekers deported from the United States, under President Donald Trump's controversial deportation drive.

The announcement, made on Thursday by a senior Ugandan Foreign Ministry official, puts the country among a handful of African and Latin American countries cooperating with the Trump administration on resettlement arrangements.

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