Uganda, Feb. 7 -- Last week we argued that part of the reason for not having angry mobs of jobless young people marching in the streets of Kampala is because many of them have been shipped off to provide labour abroad, especially in the Middle East.

Every day, as the sun rises and sets, groups of colour-coded young women (and occasionally men) shuffle through Entebbe International Airport - part of the 120,000 Ugandans exported to that region in 2022 alone.

This export, whatever moral views one has of it, has been an important pressure valve for an economy that creates less than half of the 500,000 jobs required every year.

The conditions are often less-than-ideal and there are well-documented cases of human trafficking, torture, explo...