{"id":1365,"date":"2014-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/a-safe-haven-for-somalis-in-uganda\/"},"modified":"2016-08-25T19:25:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T19:25:05","slug":"a-safe-haven-for-somalis-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/a-safe-haven-for-somalis-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"A safe haven for Somalis in Uganda?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Gianluca Iazzolino<\/p>\n<p>Key points<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are growing numbers of Somali migrants in Uganda, where a Somali community has existed since colonial times.<\/li>\n<li>Changes in the wider pattern of migration among Somalis in East Africa are driven by pressure on Somali refugees in Kenya and a more favourable legal framework for refugees in Uganda.<\/li>\n<li>Ugandan security forces and Somali community leaders share intelligence to minimize the risk of attacks on Ugandan troops in Somalia and of terrorism in Uganda.<\/li>\n<li>Uganda has emerged as a haven where Somalis can accrue financial, legal and educational assets which facilitate physical and social mobility.<\/li>\n<li>As the Somali community in Uganda has expanded business has grown, and clan-\u00ad\u2010 based Somali student unions have emerged where political aspirations are cultivated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download file : <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Iazzolino_Somalis-Uganda_RVI2014.pdf\" rel=\"\">A safe haven for Somalis in Uganda?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Gianluca Iazzolino Key points There are growing numbers of Somali migrants in Uganda, where a Somali community has existed since colonial times. Changes in the wider pattern of migration among Somalis in East Africa are driven by pressure on Somali refugees in Kenya and a more favourable legal framework for refugees in Uganda. Ugandan [&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-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-uganda","type-ngos-and-experts","type-reports","item-year-397","item-theme-nationality-and-refugees"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","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=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4278,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/4278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}