Burundi has agreed to accept people deported by the United States who have no previous connection with the country of East Africa, today announced a spokesman for the President.
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29/09/2026
by
Lusa
Nancy Ninette Mutoni said Burundi would only accept people who do not face criminal prosecutions, who have not committed violent crimes or have no connection to terrorism.
In the statements, during a public event, Mutoni did not clarify when the deportees would arrive or how many people Burundi agreed to receive. But he ensured that preparations were under way to provide accommodation and help deportees live in local communities.
“ Receiving them requires serious planning — where they will stay, what they will eat and how they will live next to the local population,” Mutoni said.
The Trump administration expanded deportations to third countries as part of its repression of immigration, sending people to countries where they are not citizens and where they may never have lived. Several African countries, including Esuatini and South Sudan, have already received citizens deported by the United States.
Last week, a U.S. appeal court ruling called the program into question. Immigrant lawyers said that a flight of about 70 people, leaving Louisiana for Burundi, Rwanda and Central African Republic, was cancelled.
The decision did not prohibit deportations to third countries, but required that people facing deportation have the opportunity to challenge being sent to countries with which they have no connection.
The Trump administration defended this policy as necessary when the countries of origin of the deportees refuse to accept them.
Today, the Supreme Court has authorized the government to continue deporting people to countries other than its own, while the judges examine whether politics is legal.