One fifth of legally employed non-EU nationals hail from Sub Saharan Africa, down from a third in 2011Filipinos now account for 17% of all non-EU workers in Malta. The most represented Sub Saharan nation is Eritrea (286) followed by Nigeria (264) and Somalia (237).In 2011 Sub Saharan Africans accounted for a third of all third country nationals, with 625 (7%) hailed from the Maghreb region. In 2011 North Africans accounted for 6% of non-EU workers.The number of Libyan workers has shot up from 89 in 2010 before the revolution to 322 in 2016, an increase of 261 per cent. Only 14 workers hailed from Algeria despite the issue of 3,021 visas to Algerian nationals in March 2014.Workers from Russia have also increased considerably in the past two years, from 218 in 2014 to 351 now, an increase of 61% in two years. But in July Leisure Clothing announced it was no longer employing North Korean workers.

Source: Libya Today November 02, 2016 06:29 UTC