Eswatini says it will repatriate five migrants deported by the US, rejecting claims that their home countries refused to accept them.

A repatriation flight organized by the United States has transported a number of foreign nationals to Eswatini, according to an official declaration

"The third countries that have received or been about to receive third-country deportees so far—El Salvador, Libya, South Sudan, now Eswatini—are marked by serious pre-existing human rights violations. This is a recipe for prolonged arbitrary detention or worse."

Immigration expert Professor Loren Landau of Wits University says it is too early for South Africa to be concerned about potential fallout, after the US the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that a deportation flight carrying immigrants from multiple countries landed in Eswatini.