US-deported asylum seekers held in Equatorial Guinea hotel under opaque deal

Published by Albis · 30 May 2026

Asylum seekers deported from the United States are being held in a hotel in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, under a reported $7.5 million arrangement that has raised legal and human-rights concerns

• • The arrangement broadens the geography of US deportation policy and raises new legal and human-rights questions about offshore detention deals.
• • The reports say many had previously received protection from US judges.
• • The Bamy Hotel, described by The Economic Times as a family-owned hotel linked to President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, has been turned into a detention site under an opaque $7.
• • Africa Press English describes the arrangement as a secret agreement of roughly the same value.