{"id":102,"date":"2015-07-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/the-aus-plans-for-an-african-passport-a-pie-in-the-sky\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T06:48:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:48:30","slug":"the-aus-plans-for-an-african-passport-a-pie-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/the-aus-plans-for-an-african-passport-a-pie-in-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"The AU\u2019s plans for an African passport a pie in the sky?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the furore over Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir\u2019s attendance, along with celebrities like Angelina Jolie, some of the discussions at last month\u2019s African Union (AU) summit in Johannesburg went largely unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>One of these is a renewed call for African countries to open their borders and for regional economic communities (RECs) to do this by no later than 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Is the AU way ahead of its time? Or is this just a desperate measure to find alternatives for Africans who are so eager to leave their own countries that they risk life and limb to settle elsewhere?<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.issafrica.org\/iss-today\/the-aus-plans-for-an-african-passport-a-pie-in-the-sky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid the furore over Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir\u2019s attendance, along with celebrities like Angelina Jolie, some of the discussions at last month\u2019s African Union (AU) summit in Johannesburg went largely unnoticed. One of these is a renewed call for African countries to open their borders and for regional economic communities (RECs) to do this by [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-pan-africa","type-blog-posts","item-year-396","item-theme-identity-documents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13801,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/13801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}