Kuwait has introduced sweeping new restrictions on the recruitment of domestic workers, effectively shutting out applicants from Nigeria, Kenya and 22 other African countries, as well as two Asian nations, under a revised labour policy tightening access to one of the Gulf’s key employment corridors

Kuwait issues new rules limiting domestic worker recruitment to 10 countries, banning 27, as part of efforts to regulate and monitor the labour market.

Kuwait has introduced new regulations governing the recruitment of domestic workers, narrowing the list of approved source countries and placing restrictions on recruitment from…