Some Lebanese employers have sacked their African maids since the huge explosion destroyed their houses, according to one domestic worker who fled her employer in February.

Many African women move to Lebanon, and other countries in the Middle East, to work in houses in what is known as the kefala system – which ties your immigration status to your live-in employment – a system which critics say leaves workers vulnerable to abuse from their employers.

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