‘They want us to leave’ — foreign workers under pressure in the Gulf

Ashraf, an Egyptian working in Kuwait, lost all his income as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The country’s curfew was eased two months ago, but for Ashraf there was little respite.

While other areas of the oil-rich sheikhdom opened up, the taxi driver endured a total lockdown in a suburb close to Kuwait City’s airport popular with foreign workers, which only reopened on Sunday. Taxi services, suspended in March, are scheduled to restart on Tuesday. Public transport, almost exclusively used by foreigners, has been halted for…