By Benard Mujuni Uganda has so far a registered total of over 120 private licensed companies to place Ugandan migrant workers abroad. As of Nov 2019, over 100,000 Ugandan migrant workers had accessed jobs in Iraq, United Arab Emirates, South Sudan, Somalia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait racking on well over 1.5 Billion dollars per annum. To protect the workers, and these inflows, Government signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia and has initiated bilateral Labour Agreements and Negotiations with other labour receiving countries such as Qatar and United Arab Emirates. Most of these went as domestic workers yet the…




