Fifteen people, reportedly mostly Colombian and Peruvian nationals, have arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after being deported from the United States, marking the first group under a new agreement between Washington and Kinshasa. The Congolese government has stressed that their stay is temporary, that they will be held on short-stay permits, and that the US is covering all costs of their reception and care. The deal is significant as the DRC becomes the latest African country — joining Ghana, South Sudan, and Eswatini — to accept so-called third-country deportees, those who are citizens of neither the sending nor receiving nation, as part of the Trump administration's sweeping crackdown on irregular immigration.