Names of five new African countries have been added to the list of countries whose domestic workers cannot be recruited in Kuwait.
The five new countries are Djibouti, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau.
With the inclusion of the five countries the total number of countries now stands at 20.
Other countries in the list include Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Togo, Senegal, Malawi, Bhutan, Chad, Tanzania, the Gambia, Ghana, Zimbabwe and Madagascar.
5 other African countries have been temporarily banned from sending domestic workers to Kuwait – Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Eritrea and Liberia.