An African nation leader who met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday said his country would not take third-country deportees from the U.S.

The president of Guinea-Bissau said his country would accept deportees who are citizens of his country, but would not be interested in those from any other nation.

The Hill reported that President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of Guinea-Bissau, a small country situated along the western Atlantic coast of Africa, said that Trump raised the idea about accepting third-country deportees, but did not put it in front of the group of African leaders as a direct or probing question.

Read more at Newsmax© 2025 Newsmax. All rights reserved.