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Kenya nurses fail English test for UK jobs

Only 10 out of 300 health workers who applied for the jobs with the NHS passed the exams, Kenya’s Health Minister said.

Dozens of Kenyan health workers failed English language tests that would have helped them get opportunities to work in the UK’s National Health Service. A Kenyan nurse tell us why he thinks an official English language test is unfair.

Plus a UN special Rapporteur calls on the West to end 20-year-long sanctions against Zimbabwe.

Photo: Sitting at a laptop. Credit: Getty Images.

23 minutes

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Thu 28 Oct 202119:06GMT

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