Eswatini protesters rally at US Embassy over deportation deal

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Eswatini protesters rally at US Embassy over deportation deal  Pro-democracy protesters from Eswatini gathered outside the US Embassy in Pretoria on Friday, voicing strong opposition to a reported deal between the US government and Eswatini’s monarchy that would see deported migrants returned to the southern African kingdom.  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/09/20/eswatini-protesters-rally-at-us-embassy-over-deportation-deal  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:01In Pretoria, pro-democracy protesters from Eswatini rally outside the U.S. Embassy,

00:06slamming a reported deal that would return U.S.-deported migrants to their homeland.

00:12They're demanding an end to absolute monarchy,

00:14accusing King M. Eswatini of accepting large sums of money in exchange for the deal.

00:20Just the other day, stats came out to say Swaziland is the second highest in suicide rates in Africa.

00:25And, I mean, those are socioeconomic issues that are actually causing that,

00:31because there's just so much poverty.

00:33Yet there's a man who's able to make a deal between himself and the U.S. government

00:37to say he will take $500 million, and none of that is going to be received by the Swazi people.

00:43No way that the Swazi people are going to actually benefit from any of that.

00:46So that's why today we are standing here.

00:48Protesters say the monarchy should be focused on improving the lives of ordinary citizens

00:56and demand accountability.

01:01It is very unfortunate.

01:02We have a king that got 15 wives, and these wives of the king, they've never worked anywhere.

01:09And these two billion that come with these criminals or these people from the United States

01:14is going to continue sustaining the monarch, not necessarily the people of Swaziland,

01:18or even assisting the people of Swaziland to fight crime.

01:22So it is for that reason we came here and say, comrade,

01:25the United States and Swaziland must just take their people out of our country.

01:33Despite being a lower-middle-income country,

01:3663% of the population in Eswatini live below the poverty line.

01:41A staggering 58% of young people are unemployed,

01:45one of the worst rates in the world.

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