South Sudan says person at centre of US deportation row is from DRC

Country had refused to allow an individual deported from US, following which US revoked visas of all South Sudan passport holders

The government of South Sudan said on Monday that an individual at the centre of a deportation row with the US, which South Sudan refused to allow into the country at the weekend, is a citizen of neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

South Sudan said the individual was a man named Makula Kintu, not Nimeiri Garang, as his paperwork claimed and had been using travel documents which weren't his. In accordance with our immigration protocols, we returned him to the sending country for further processing," the foreign ministry spokesperson, Apuk Ayuel Mayen, said.