Trapped in Oman - BBC Africa Eye Documentary

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  @BBCAfrica · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  🎥 WATCH this documentary in SWAHILI here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QeZA0eZkfg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QeZA0eZkfg</a> <br>and in FRENCH here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89r0LMqW38Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89r0LMqW38Q</a><br>🎧 LISTEN to &apos;The Documentary: Trapped in Oman&apos; from @BBCWorldService and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/bbcafricaeye">#BBCAfricaEye</a> here: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6q7y">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6q7y</a><br>🗞 READ more about this investigation here: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-68565425">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-68565425</a>

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• NI

  @nightingaleofficial3604 · 2 years ago

  Blocking the abusers face is part of the problem. These people need to be &nbsp; &nbsp;exposed and shamed all around the world. No privacy for them.

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• ZA

  @zamazoh6241 · 2 years ago

  As an African, I&apos;m so angry. This needs to be circulated to all Social Media. Especially TikTok. To spread the word Agencies should be exposed.

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  @esthermkandawire1603 · 2 years ago

  This could have been my story. I thank God i put my foot down and said no. Poverty at home is better than Poverty in a different country. &nbsp;This is just not it

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• MU

  @mulikathambali1772 · 2 years ago

  The saddest thing is another young African lady is watching this and saying &apos;my story will be diff&quot; 😢.

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• SI

  @simoni6770 · 2 years ago

  As a Malawian, I am angry at those oppressors but also at our own government for making our own country hard to survive in.

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  @Jacquerina-q9o · 2 years ago

  The countries that enable modern day slavery need to be held accountable. The child filmed hitting the enslaved servant was just appalling. What kind of culture enables such behaviour?

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• MC

  @mck5549 · 2 years ago

  It seems these people who mistreat housekeepers are not really looking for housekeepers. They are looking for people to unleash their anger on and capture

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• KI

  @kingssattv · 1 year ago

  I lived in Oman for almost two years from 2020 to October 2021 <br>I remember helping a lot of Nigeria girls to escape from the slave masters &nbsp;there in Oman, it was so so risky but of course am a Nigerian and I don’t fear risk, before I came back to Nigeria I and my friends helped up to 8 girls get freedom

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  @noah1968 · 2 years ago

  How difficult is it for AFRICAN Governments to pass laws to ban operations of these recruiters?<br>We see it playing over and over on TV of girls trapped in Lebanon, Dubai, Saudi Arabia. Let’s live in our poverty in Africa instead of traveling to the Middle East where conditions are even worse than our perceived African poverty.

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• JE

  @jes940 · 2 years ago

  No one is talking about their African brothers and sisters who act as agents and are on the ground in these countries and scouting for potential victims to send to these countries, knowing what they will face when they arrived Oman. Like Georgina’s story. They are the biggest link in this slavery chain and must be held responsible. It’s a shame what Africans do to each other!

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  @manuari6088 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m a Kenyan and such issues have been reported many times in the media. But what makes me angry is when one body is flown back to the country other ladies are busy boarding planes to go to these Arab countries. They are aware of what awaits them but they rather go and face inhumane treatment than stay in their country. Some years back I used to hear stories but now I know of relatives and friends who work as domestic workers in Arab countries. One of my relatives came back in a very critical condition almost losing her life so we thought she wouldn&apos;t go back but shock on us, after she recovered she approached another agent, and as we speak she is not in the country. African countries should unite and put an end to this modern slavery.

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