{"id":1569,"date":"2016-06-20T12:27:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T12:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/senegal\/"},"modified":"2021-07-14T21:03:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T21:03:55","slug":"senegal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/west-africa\/senegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citizenship in Senegal is governed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/loi-n-61-10-du-7-mars-1961-portant-code-de-la-nationalite-senegalaise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Loi No. 61-10 du 7 mars 1961 d\u00e9terminant la nationalit\u00e9 s\u00e9n\u00e9galaise<\/a> as modified most recently in 2013 (<a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/loi-2013-05-portant-modification-de-la-loi-no-61-10-du-7-mars-1961-determinant-la-nationalite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Loi 2013-05)<\/a>. The 2013 amendments sought to remove gender discrimination in the 1961 law which provided the children of Senegalese fathers and foreign mothers with automatic citizenship while the children of Senegalese mothers and foreign fathers had to apply at majority. The law also changed the provisions for acquisition of nationality by marriage, allowing Senegalese women to pass their nationality to their spouses on the same terms as men.<\/p>\n<p>Although the provisions of the law appear to prohibit dual nationality, in practice dual nationality is tolerated by Senegal for ordinary citizens.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/senegal-constitution-senegal-2001-presidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Constitution<\/a> provides that the president must not be a dual national; in 2016 there were <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/senegal-presidentielle-2019-proposition-contre-la-double-nationalite-nous-avons-decide-benoit-sambou\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposals <\/a>to require that presidential candidates should have renounced another nationality five years before standing for office.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, the <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/crc-concluding-observations-senegal-2006\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Committee on the Rights of the Child<\/a> welcomed Senegal\u2019s efforts to improve birth registration in the country, but expressed concern about the persistent disparity between urban and rural populations in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Senegal hosts a large population of Mauritanian refugees whose citizenship status in <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/region\/mauritania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mauritania<\/a> has been contested. Many of these refugees have <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/les-refugies-au-senegal-entre-espoir-et-inquietude\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">returned to Mauritania,<\/a> assisted by UNHCR. Senegal has offered naturalization to members of the remaining group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Citizenship in Senegal is governed by the Loi No. 61-10 du 7 mars 1961 d\u00e9terminant la nationalit\u00e9 s\u00e9n\u00e9galaise as modified most recently in 2013 (Loi 2013-05). The 2013 amendments sought to remove gender discrimination in the 1961 law which provided the children of Senegalese fathers and foreign mothers with automatic citizenship while the children of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3792,"parent":1487,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1569","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32347,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1569\/revisions\/32347"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}