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Here on Newsday we鈥檝e been reporting on how domestic workers from Africa have been left stranded in Lebanon amid a financial crisis that has been worsened by the coronavirus pandemic.

For years rights groups have been appealing for better conditions for domestic workers trapped in what is known as the Kafala system - the import of unskilled migrant workers into the Gulf and surrounding countries - which leaves them vulnerable to poor, often abusive conditions, minimal pay and limited means of returning home.

One of those women who left Ghana for Lebanon to work as a domestic helper but suffered appalling conditions told me her story. We're not naming her for her own safety.

(Pic: A black woman rests her arms on a white bed sheet; Credit: AFP)