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Despair rules in Lebanon as Kenyan workers cry out for help

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By Okumu Modachi and Jacinta Mutura | Oct 03, 2024

**Emergency service personnel and residents gather at the site of an Israeli strike that killed three people in Damascus, Syria, on October 2, 2024.** [AFP]

As war rages in Lebanon, Kenyan migrant workers have found themselves between a rock and a hard place even as the Kenya government begins the process to evacuate them.

Those working in Southern Lebanon, the epicentre of the Israel-Hezbollah war, The Standard managed to speak to said they have been rendered homeless.
Earlier a distraught woman working as a domestic worker in Beirut went on TikTok narrating how she woke up only to find that her employer family had escaped and left her alone in the house.

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