US deportee jailed in Eswatini enters hunger strike | International

MBABANE, Eswatini, Oct 22, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A Cuban man deported by the United States to the tiny southern African kingdom of Eswatini has started a hunger strike, his lawyer said Wednesday. Roberto Mosquera del Peral was among five men sent to the kingdom in July under a deal with the US seen by AFP in which Eswatini agreed to accept up to 160 deportees in exchange for $5.1 million to "build its border and migration management capacity". One of the men, 62-year-old Jamaican Orville Etoria, was repatriated to Jamaica in September but ten more deportees arrived on October 6, according to the Eswatini government which says it intends to return them all to their home countries. They are all...