Entebbe8 deportees landed on 1 April in handcuffs and leg chains.
Most spoke French, not English, and knew none of Uganda’s official language.
An Asylum Cooperative Agreement signed in July 2025 lets the US send third-country nationals seeking protection to Uganda.
“They wore filthy clothes and had no money or means of contacting their loved ones,” said lawyer Robert Okot.
Observers say the deal breaches international law and bolsters President Yoweri Museveni’s hold on power.
How each outlet framed it
- New Lines Magazine leans critical
- reconstructs deportees' harrowing arrival in Uganda—stripped of resources, disoriented, mostly French-speaking in English-dominant country
Sources: New Lines Magazine