{"id":12891,"date":"2017-04-12T18:52:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T18:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=12891"},"modified":"2017-04-12T18:52:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T18:52:14","slug":"countries-delay-east-africa-e-passports-plan-until-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/countries-delay-east-africa-e-passports-plan-until-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Countries delay East Africa e-passports plan until next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By LYNET IGADWAH<\/p>\n<p>East African Community citizens will have to wait longer for \u201csmart\u201d national and regional passports as member states lag a year behind schedule in delays that highlight the obstacles facing joint issuance of travel documents in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>East African Community partner states were supposed to begin issuing e-passports at the beginning of this year.\u00a0 However,\u00a0 Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya have said that they cannot begin this process until later this year while Tanzania has said it will start in 2018. Burundi has made the most progress having completed the process of procuring the e-passport booklets.<\/p>\n<p>Read further on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/business\/Countries-delay-East-Africa-epassports\/996-3886942-q91xt8\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Nation website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By LYNET IGADWAH East African Community citizens will have to wait longer for \u201csmart\u201d national and regional passports as member states lag a year behind schedule in delays that highlight the obstacles facing joint issuance of travel documents in Africa. East African Community partner states were supposed to begin issuing e-passports at the beginning of [&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-12891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-east-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports","item-theme-sub-regional-standards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891","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=12891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12892,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891\/revisions\/12892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}