That meant that the South Sudan transfer could be completed after the flight was detoured to a base in Djibouti, where they men were held in a converted shipping container.

UNICEF is working with Sudan's Ministry of Health and other partners to protect children from cholera. More supplies and essential medicines are urgently needed.

Assistant Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the deportation flight carrying the deportees landed in South Sudan just before midnight EST on Friday.

The Department of Homeland Security said it deported several violent criminal illegal aliens after weeks of delays caused by court orders from "activist judges" that blocked ICE actions.

Courts blocked the handover after lawyers raised concerns of torture. Then the Supreme Court intervened to allow the Trump administration’s plan to move forward.

The eight deported men had been convicted of violent crimes, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

U.S. completes deportation of 8 men to South Sudan after weeks of legal wrangling Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks at an event Thursday in Guatemala.

Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African nation of Djibouti while their legal challenges played out in court have ...

WASHINGTON/NAIROBI, July 5 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has deported to South Sudan eight migrants who had been held for more than a month by the U.S. at a military base in Djibouti, the ...

Eight deported "migrants" who had been held at a U.S. military base in Djibouti are bound for South Sudan aboard a military aircraft that took off on Friday night.

Despite a federal judge briefly halting deportations of eight immigrants to war-torn South Sudan, he and a second judge eventually cleared the way for the Trump administration to relocate the immig… ...

Judge Randolph Moss has issued an emergency ruling deciding to transfer the case involving the deportation of eight men to war-torn South Sudan. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a previous decision ...