{"id":1049,"date":"2005-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/cote-divoire-whats-in-a-name-a-fight-for-identity\/"},"modified":"2016-08-07T08:15:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T08:15:08","slug":"cote-divoire-whats-in-a-name-a-fight-for-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/cote-divoire-whats-in-a-name-a-fight-for-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: What\u2019s in a name: A fight for identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOUAKE, 1 November 2005 (IRIN) &#8211; &#8220;We needed a war because we needed our identity cards,&#8221; explained rebel fighter Adama Traore, one of thousands of rebels who control the northern half of Cote d&#8217;Ivoire. &#8220;Without an identity card you are nothing in this country.&#8221; The 23-year-old used to work with a local aid agency improving healthcare but he picked up a Kalashnikov when the war started three years ago to take up another more important service, he says &#8212; the fight for equal rights for all Ivorians. &#8220;We are badly treated. Plenty of northerners have been killed, beaten or given a hard time for nothing,&#8221; he told IRIN near the rebel stronghold of Bouake, as he took a break from manning a checkpoint on the main road that runs south into government-controlled territory.<\/p>\n<p>Read further on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irinnews.org\/feature\/2005\/11\/01\/whats-name-fight-identity\">IRIN website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOUAKE, 1 November 2005 (IRIN) &#8211; &#8220;We needed a war because we needed our identity cards,&#8221; explained rebel fighter Adama Traore, one of thousands of rebels who control the northern half of Cote d&#8217;Ivoire. &#8220;Without an identity card you are nothing in this country.&#8221; The 23-year-old used to work with a local aid agency improving [&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-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-cote-divoire","region-west-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-483","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports","item-theme-identity-documents","item-theme-nationality-and-elections","item-theme-voter-registration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","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=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8762,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/8762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}