Nigeria has been officially included in a list of 27 nations banned from exporting domestic labour to the Gulf country of Kuwait.
The restriction, implemented via a new circular from Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior, marks a significant shift in the Gulf state’s bilateral labour relations and narrows its recruitment pool to just 10 approved countries.
Under the updated regulations, Kuwait has prohibited the recruitment of domestic workers from major 27 African and Asian suppliers of labour such as Madagascar, Bhutan, and African countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Togo, Malawi, Chad, Djibouti, Niger, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cabo Verde, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Angola.
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Conversely, recruitment remains open to South Africa, Benin, Eritrea, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, India, Vietnam, and Nepal. For Senegal, recruitment is strictly limited to male workers.
