{"id":14339,"date":"2017-08-31T17:41:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T17:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=14339"},"modified":"2017-09-06T17:45:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:45:39","slug":"to-be-or-not-to-be-chadian-fleeing-central-africans-defy-traditional-ideas-of-nationality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/to-be-or-not-to-be-chadian-fleeing-central-africans-defy-traditional-ideas-of-nationality\/","title":{"rendered":"To be or not to be Chadian? Fleeing Central Africans defy traditional ideas of nationality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Laura Angela Bagnetto<\/p>\n<div class=\"intro\">\n<p>For Idrissa Haroum, the decision was pure and simple&#8211; he wants to live where he is accepted. The 55-year-old Muslim from the Central African Republic says that he was called a Chadian in his own country. He now owns that moniker, and has the birth certificate to prove it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI was 100 percent Central African. From the moment of Bokassa, Kolingba, up until Boziz\u00e9 and Djotodia, I have been Central African,\u201d he says, rattling off the names of former heads of state of CAR. \u201cBut from the time I arrived here, I recognized in my head that I\u2019m a Chadian, 100 per cent,\u201d says Haroum, who is classified as a returnee.<\/p>\n<p>The Chadian government, along with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/chad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)<\/a>, has worked towards recognizing those Central Africans who claim to have Chadian ancestry. In 2013, Chadian President Idriss Deby called for Central Africans who were originally Chadian to come to his country if they felt persecuted. Landlocked Chad shares its southern border with Central African Republic, and Haroum\u2019s dilemma is particularly found in southern Chad as RFI witnessed.<\/p>\n<p>Read further &amp; listen to audio: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.rfi.fr\/africa\/20170830-be-or-not-be-chadian-fleeing-central-africans-defy-traditional-ideas-nationality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/en.rfi.fr\/africa\/20170830-be-or-not-be-chadian-fleeing-central-africans-defy-traditional-ideas-nationality<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Laura Angela Bagnetto For Idrissa Haroum, the decision was pure and simple&#8211; he wants to live where he is accepted. The 55-year-old Muslim from the Central African Republic says that he was called a Chadian in his own country. He now owns that moniker, and has the birth certificate to prove it. \u201cI was [&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-14339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-central-african-republic","region-chad","type-audio-and-video","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-acquisition-of-nationality","item-theme-nationality-and-refugees"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339","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=14339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14345,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339\/revisions\/14345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}