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Overseas jobs halve as demand for Kenyan workers falls
Job seekers are screened before being interviewed for jobs in Qatar at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) on October 25, 2024, during a mass recruitment drive.
Photo credit: Wilfred Nyangaresi | Nation Media Group
The number of contracts for foreign jobs cleared for renewal or extension more than halved to 19,310 in the financial year ended June 2024 on reduced job offers and closure of unregistered recruitment agencies.
Latest data from the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection shows that the number dropped by 54.3 percent from 42,254 contracts that had been attested a year earlier, marking the third consecutive year that the number of government-approved overseas jobs has fallen.
