African workers in Lebanon are stuck and unpaid by an exploitative labor system worsened by Covid

The future for Yemi, a Nigerian former student, was laid out in a contract written in Arabic which she signed in an office in Lagos in June 2019 to enable a recruitment agency bring her to work in Lebanon. Instead of protecting her, the recruitment agency reassigned her to a third family. An African migrant domestic worker pushes her luggage at a Beirut hotel as she prepares to travel back to her country.