AGP Executive Report
Last update: 6 hours agoUS deportation pipeline: Sierra Leone received its first plane of migrants deported from the United States under Donald Trump’s crackdown, with nine West Africans landing in Freetown—seven men and two women from Ghana, Guinea, Senegal and Nigeria—after Sierra Leone agreed to take up to 300 people a year from ECOWAS states, with arrivals expected to be housed temporarily and sent back within weeks. Regional rights debate: The deal is part of a wider “third-country” system that rights groups say is opaque and raises legal concerns, including cases where courts have intervened. Eswatini in focus abroad: King Mswati III visited SOCAR’s Baku Higher Oil School, praising the “one-roof” model of fast, tech-enabled services and pushing for future Eswatini student exchange. Health and governance: Parliamentarians backed stronger domestic funding for TB as donor support declines, while Eswatini’s High Court barred a Shiselweni regional administrator from interfering in the KaGasa–KaLiba chieftaincy dispute.
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