TRAPPED IN OMAN - BBC Africa Eye documentary

bbc africa Eye investigates the plight of Malawian women lured to oman with offers of domestic work, only to be trapped in a cycle of exploitation, with little hope of escape.

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Through WhatsApp voice notes, videos, and texts, this documentary reveals their abusive ordeals, and exposes the tactics of agents that traffic and then abandon them. The investigation also examines the poverty and desperation that leads young people to seek opportunities in the Middle East, and the weak justice system that often allows their employers to abuse them with impunity.

Intimate testimonies reveal widespread accounts of sexual and physical abuse, or worse, of African workers - and the film follows the work of an extraordinary network of women working across three continents fighting to bring them home, often against impossible odds.

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Credits:

Head of Longform – LIZ GIBBONS

africa Eye Editor – TOM WATSON

Director and Executive Producer – NICOLA MILNE

Film Editor – FINLAY MILNE

Investigative Producer – KASSIM MOHAMED

Reporter – FLORENCE PHIRI

Archive – VOICE OF africa, VOA, NEWS CENTRAL africa

Additional Camera – ROBERT MBETEWA

Additional Translation – SUSAN MATIYA

Online Editor – CHRIS STOTT

Colourist – BOYD NAGLE

Dubbing Mixer – JEZ SPENCER

Reversioning Producer and Film Research – ANNA PAYTON

Digital Producer – TAMASIN FORD

Impact Producer – ADELLE KALAKOUTI

Social Media Producer – ANUSHA KUMAR

Production Coordinator – ABIGAIL KNIGHT

Production Manager – SIMON FROST

Camera - malawi – PETER MAZUNDA

Camera - USA – DEREK ELLIS

Camera - Greece – VANIA TURNER

Fixer – HENRY MHANGO

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