Uganda cracks whip on human trafficking

Some of the 71 foreigners from Uganda, Burundi and Tanzania arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on transit to Oman on September 2018. The Ugandan government is cracking down on such employment schemes. [File, Standard]

When 24-year-old Mumbejja Mulwana's contract at her workplace in the capital Kampala expired last year, she had no option but to approach one of the middlemen in the labour export market to try and get her whichever job was available in one of the Arab countries.

Equipped with her passport, Mulwana approached the middleman who suggested she pay about 200 U.S. dollars. Within a week she had already been taken for a medical examination.