Stranded Filipino Shepherdess Returns Home at Last - Human Rights; SaudiArabia/Workers/South African
10/3/08
Leonora Somera, the 66-year-old Filipino woman who had been stranded in the Kingdom for 20 years, is back in the Philippines at last. Somera left Jeddah on board an Emirates Airlines flight on Thursday night and arrived in Manila the next day, the Philippine Consulate in Jeddah has said. Consulate officials gave no other details. In a telephone interview yesterday, she said that she was made to stay at a center maintained by the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) in Pasay City for debriefing.
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Missing South African Nurse Found in Jail
M. Ghazanfar Ali Khan; 10/3/08
A South African nurse who has been missing since November has been found imprisoned in a Saudi jail and is expected to return to her country within the next few days. Dannelene Noach disappeared after allegedly discovering corruption at the hospital where she worked. “The South African Embassy has managed to trace the nurse, and the mission is rendering all consular support to her,” said South African Ambassador John Davies.
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