Uganda: Govt Scraps Migrant Workers Fees, Revises Labour Export Law

30 September 2021

Government has scrapped fees charged on people seeking jobs in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia.

Addressing a weekly Cabinet press briefing in Kampala yesterday, the Minister of Gender, Ms Betty Amongi, said the decision was made by Cabinet on September 27 at State House Entebbe during a meeting to discuss the performance of externalisation of labour programme which was launched in 2005.

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