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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by MicroWave to c/world
 

Germany has agreed to open the doors to 250,000 skilled and semi-skilled Kenyan workers in a controlled and targeted labour migration deal. 

Kenya is struggling with increasing difficulties in providing work and sufficient income for its young professionals, while Germany is facing a shortage of skilled labour. 

Five Kenyan bus drivers have already been welcomed to Flensburg, in the north of Germany, in a pilot project. 

Migration agreements are a central pillar in the German government's efforts to curb immigration.

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[–] Twoafros 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"The German government has said the deal does not specify the number of workers who will be allowed in. "

I think BBC edited the article after you posted this but I couldn't find the 250000 number from the title.

In any case this is great news for both countries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

How is this not a brain drain for Kenya?

[–] FlyingSquid 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow. One German guy needs a lot of workers...

[–] MicroWave 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 1 month ago

Based on the auto-preview thingy, it looks like it wasn't your fault, it was the BBC's.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Article shows :

Correction 14 September 2024: An earlier version of this article put a figure on how many Kenyan workers would be allowed into Germany under the deal. The German interior ministry corrected this to state that the deal did not specify a figure.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago

In Spain they just did the same. Legal and fancy slavery, interesting… Europeans will never change

[–] feedum_sneedson 1 points 1 month ago

Capitalism's spatial fix.

[–] mlg 1 points 1 month ago

BBC trying not to make up facts and still successfully passing as a credible news source challenge (literally impossible)

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hide your cats!

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Proactively working on their demographics issue by embracing immigration. The US could learn a lot by Germany's example.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Naaah, not really. I don't know where this suddenly came from but in the last couple of weeks our migration politics seem to develop into a really bad direction as well.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah people are giving us way too much credit on this one, the whole country is going nuts closing our borders just to do something while my daily life is the same now as it was 1,2,5,10 years ago.

[–] ori 7 points 1 month ago

gotta blame someone when you are unhappy

[–] Nuke_the_whales 8 points 1 month ago

Germany is full of shit and isn't anywhere near as progressive as their pr department wants you to think