Seven women stranded in a Saudi hostel have been flown home, Uganda's ambassador to Saudi Arabia says.The development comes amid a 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 considering 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 24 women from Uganda had been found 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".
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