The deportees from South America are the first to be sent to the DRC in a deal agreed between Washington and Kinshasa
Costa Rica has received 25 people deported by the US as the first wave of an agreement between the two countries.
The country will start receiving deportees from this month but has not said how many they will accept.
DR Congo will receive some migrants as part of a new deal under the Trump administration’s third-country programme, its government said on Sunday, the latest such African nation to receive migrants being deported from the United States. The deportees will start arriving in Democratic Republic of Congo this month, the Congolese Ministry of Communications said in a statement, without further details on the date or the number of deportees expected. It described the arrangement as a “temporary” one...