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One source familiar with the matter said they would total 37, while another put the figure at 45.<br \/>They will be the first to land in the Central African country as part of an agreement with the Trump administration announced on April 5, two days after Reuters reported the two countries were negotiating a deal for Congo to receive third-country deportees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Republic of Congo is set to receive more than 30 deportees from the United States this week, four sources told Reuters, the latest example ofWashington using agreements with African governments to accelerate migrant removals.The deportees are all from countries other than Congo, and at least some are from Central and South America, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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