Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is questioning why the Trump administration sent money to Equatorial Guinea, which she describes as one of the world’s most corrupt countries.

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has made a “highly unusual” payment of US$7.5-million to the small oil-rich country of Equatorial Guinea in a covert deal allowing Washington to send deported migrants there, a Democratic senator says.

Jeanne Shaheen, the top Democratic senator on the Senate foreign relations committee, disclosed the payment in a letter this week and questioned why the Trump administration was transferring U.S. money to what she describes as one of the world’s most corrupt countries.

Equatorial Guinea has been ruled for 46 years by President Teodoro Obiang, who seized power in a military coup

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