Five immigrants deported by the United States to the small southern African nation of Eswatini under the Trump administration's third-country program are being held in solitary confinement in various prisons for an undetermined time,

The Trump administration sent five deportees to Eswatini, an African kingdom, saying that their own countries would not take them. But Eswatini says it will send them home.

Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, is the only nation in Africa where the monarch retains full executive power