Seven women stranded in a Saudi hostel have been flown home,
Uganda's ambassador to Saudi Arabia says.
It comes amid a Ugandan ban on the recruitment of maids to
work in Saudi Arabia after accusations that workers have been mistreated.
The women were staying in a government-run shelter in Riyadh
because they did not have money to pay for a flight.
The shelter is for people who have run away from their
employers and illegal workers caught by immigration services.
A statement from the Ugandan Embassy in Saudi Arabia said
that they found 24 women from Uganda at the shelter in the Saudi capital.
After visiting the shelter, Ugandan ambassador Rachid Yahya
Ssemuddu said that "most of the cases involved human trafficking".
Source; http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35409201
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