{"id":12837,"date":"2017-03-27T16:13:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=12837"},"modified":"2017-04-07T16:18:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T16:18:44","slug":"kenyans-protest-magufuli-order-to-deport-foreigners-block-namanga-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/kenyans-protest-magufuli-order-to-deport-foreigners-block-namanga-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyans protest Magufuli order to deport foreigners, block Namanga border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By KURGAT MARINDANY<\/p>\n<p>Kenyans in Namanga demonstrated against Tanzanian leader John Magufuli on Monday saying he had deported their counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>They paralysed transport by blocking the Kenya-Tanzania border road at Namanga and stormed businesses owned by Tanzanians.<\/p>\n<p>They rounded the foreigners up and frog-marched them across the border to their country. Many from Magufuli&#8217;s country claimed they lost their stock and money.<\/p>\n<p>Tanzanian barmaids working in Kenyan clubs were roughed up and their mobile phones taken away.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses on the Kenyan side remained closed until after midday.<\/p>\n<p>The Star reported in January that Tanzanian authorities were targeting Kenyans living in their country illegally.<\/p>\n<p>Several Kenyans, including those who were born in Tanzania before independence, have been told to leave if they cannot provide documents validating their stay.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/news\/2017\/03\/27\/kenyans-protest-magufuli-order-to-deport-foreigners-block-namanga_c1532790\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/news\/2017\/03\/27\/kenyans-protest-magufuli-order-to-deport-foreigners-block-namanga_c1532790<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By KURGAT MARINDANY Kenyans in Namanga demonstrated against Tanzanian leader John Magufuli on Monday saying he had deported their counterparts. They paralysed transport by blocking the Kenya-Tanzania border road at Namanga and stormed businesses owned by Tanzanians. They rounded the foreigners up and frog-marched them across the border to their country. Many from Magufuli&#8217;s country [&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-12837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","region-tanzania","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-deportation-and-mass-expulsions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12837","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=12837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12845,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12837\/revisions\/12845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}