The ban is being imposed despite the Philippines» reliance on remittance money from its Kuwait - based workers; some 262,000 Filipinos are employed in the oil - rich Gulf sheikhdom. (cnbc.com)
They had been put off by tribal hostility, discouraging results and — in the 1960s — escalating regional violence as the Marxist - leaning National Liberation Front tried to extend its control over southern Arabian sheikhdoms and sultanates, culminating in the establishment of South Yemen in 1967. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)