Migrant Workers Suffer Most in Iran Gulf Attacks

African outlets focus on how Iranian attacks on Gulf energy sites are hurting migrant workers from countries such as Nigeria, India, Pakistan and the Philippines. These reports stress that foreign workers are often the first to be laid off or left in unsafe conditions when facilities are evacuated or damaged. Governments in worker-sending countries are described as worried about remittance losses and the safety of their citizens but with limited power to influence events in the Gulf.

• •African media report that many Nigerian and Asian migrant workers in the Gulf energy sector have seen contracts suspended after Iranian strikes.
• •Worker advocates say foreign labourers are sometimes kept on sites without clear safety guarantees during periods of heightened threat.
• •Officials in labour-exporting countries warn that large-scale job losses in the Gulf would cut remittances that support families back home.
• •Reports highlight that migrant workers have little say in evacuation plans and may lack access to proper shelters during attacks.
• •Commentators in Africa argue that Gulf and Western military decisions rarely account for the human cost to foreign workers.