{"id":127,"date":"2015-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/kenya-battle-for-2017-votes-shifts-to-identity-cards\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T06:53:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:53:17","slug":"kenya-battle-for-2017-votes-shifts-to-identity-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/kenya-battle-for-2017-votes-shifts-to-identity-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Battle for 2017 votes shifts to Identity cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017 presidential contest has shifted to voter registration, with statistics indicating that over 1.2 million Kenyans acquired new ID cards in 2013 alone.<\/p>\n<p>The new figures emerged as Kenya\u2019s embassy in the US announced that it was rolling out massive ID registration \u2013 a prerequisite for voter registration \u2013 for Kenyans living in the diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Embassy of the Republic of Kenya is pleased to announce that it will carry out a National Identity Card registration exercise in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from Saturday, June 6, 2015 \u2013 Sunday, June 7, 2015,\u201d the Kenyan embassy, headed by Ambassador Njeru Githae, announced.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/news\/battle-2017-votes-shifts-identity-cards?utm_content=buffer791c8&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer#sthash.CeNPj7it.qySvwqRa.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2017 presidential contest has shifted to voter registration, with statistics indicating that over 1.2 million Kenyans acquired new ID cards in 2013 alone. The new figures emerged as Kenya\u2019s embassy in the US announced that it was rolling out massive ID registration \u2013 a prerequisite for voter registration \u2013 for Kenyans living in the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-east-africa","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-396","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports","item-theme-identity-documents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","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=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4069,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/4069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}