{"id":19621,"date":"2018-08-24T18:20:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T18:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=19621"},"modified":"2018-08-25T18:22:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T18:22:01","slug":"drc-presidential-dual-citizenship-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/drc-presidential-dual-citizenship-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC presidential: dual citizenship debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dual citizenship which is forbidden by law is generating debates across the Democratic Republic of Congo (<span class=\"caps\">DRC<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Justice, Alexis Thambwe Mwamba, earlier in the week said a list of Congolese persons holding second nationality had been transferred to \u2018Ceni\u2019, Congo\u2019s Electoral Commission.<\/p>\n<p>One of the country\u2019s known opposition leaders Moise Katumbi is one. He is believed to hold Congolese and Italian citizenships. The situation on the law is triggering a debate amongst lawyers in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Watch video: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2018\/08\/24\/drc-presidential-dual-citizenship-debate-the-morning-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2018\/08\/24\/drc-presidential-dual-citizenship-debate-the-morning-call\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dual citizenship which is forbidden by law is generating debates across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Minister of Justice, Alexis Thambwe Mwamba, earlier in the week said a list of Congolese persons holding second nationality had been transferred to \u2018Ceni\u2019, Congo\u2019s Electoral Commission. One of the country\u2019s known opposition leaders Moise Katumbi is one. [&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-19621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-democratic-republic-of-congo","type-audio-and-video","item-year-642","item-theme-dual-nationality","item-theme-nationality-of-politicians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19621","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=19621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19622,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19621\/revisions\/19622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}