{"id":15071,"date":"2017-11-09T15:20:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T15:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=15071"},"modified":"2017-11-11T12:50:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T12:50:23","slug":"madagascars-karana-people-still-awaiting-nationality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/madagascars-karana-people-still-awaiting-nationality\/","title":{"rendered":"Madagascar\u2019s Karana people still awaiting nationality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Markku Aikomus<\/p>\n<p>MAHAJANGA, Madagascar \u2013 Since he was 15, Ibrahim Ickbal, a 50-year-old father of two, has worked in the same jewellery shop in the city of Mahajanga, on Madagascar\u2019s northern coast. Although he barely earns enough to rent the two-room house he shares with his wife and children, he considers himself lucky to have a job of any kind.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim belongs to Madagascar\u2019s Karana community, an ethnic minority group. Although his family arrived in Madagascar from India more than a century ago, Ibrahim does not possess Malagasy nationality. Like a significant portion of the Karana in Madagascar, and like his father before him, he is stateless.<\/p>\n<p>Read further:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/news\/stories\/2017\/11\/5a018ff44\/madagascars-karana-people-still-awaiting-nationality.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/news\/stories\/2017\/11\/5a018ff44\/madagascars-karana-people-still-awaiting-nationality.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Markku Aikomus MAHAJANGA, Madagascar \u2013 Since he was 15, Ibrahim Ickbal, a 50-year-old father of two, has worked in the same jewellery shop in the city of Mahajanga, on Madagascar\u2019s northern coast. Although he barely earns enough to rent the two-room house he shares with his wife and children, he considers himself lucky to [&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-15071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-madagascar","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071","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=15071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15118,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071\/revisions\/15118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}