A Ugandan official said the country would prefer to receive people from African nationalities under the agreement.

Uganda said it had agreed to a "temporary" deal with the Trump administration to take in migrants deported from the U.S, with certain conditions around criminals and unaccompanied minors. Newsweek has contacted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE) for comment via email outside of normal business hours.

Uganda has agreed to a deal with the United States to take deported migrants as long as they don't have criminal records and are not unaccompanied minors, the foreign ministry said Thursday. The ministry said in a statement that the agreement had been concluded but that terms were still being worked out.

Uganda – which has Africa's largest refugee population – has become the latest African country to agree to take in failed asylum seekers deported from the United States, under President Donald Trump's controversial deportation drive.

Conditions of the agreement stipulate Uganda will not accept “individuals with criminal records and unaccompanied minors.”

Uganda plans to build a new city in an area near Kampala that’s adjacent to a square mile it has offered to R&B singer Akon for development as it seeks to reduce congestion in the capital.

Jane Nabakooza, a pediatrician with Uganda’s malaria control program, said she expects the government will make Coartem Baby available to patients free of charge, even after losing funding when the U.S. shrank its foreign aid program earlier this year.

On her way back from school each afternoon, six-year-old N. K. walked past acres of leafy cassava plants, corn stalks, and bushels of bananas dangling over lily-white coffee blossoms. The sun shone brightly on the fertile volcano-soil fields in Bukumbula, a village outside the southwestern Ugandan city of Masaka.

The central bank also noted that the Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER) appreciated by 1.8 percent year-on-year in July 2025, compared to a 2.7 percent appreciation in June,