{"id":22411,"date":"2019-04-18T07:49:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T07:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=22411"},"modified":"2019-04-20T07:51:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T07:51:26","slug":"great-lakes-region-adopts-common-approach-to-deal-with-statelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/great-lakes-region-adopts-common-approach-to-deal-with-statelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Lakes region adopts common approach to deal with statelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a three day meeting held in Nairobi this week, countries from the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/deadly-violence-flares-up-in-the-great-lakes-region\/\"> Great Lakes region<\/a> have agreed to adopt a common approach to deal with statelessness in the region.<\/p>\n<p>This will involve a common legal framework that will guarantee rights to nationality for all.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting brought together representative from governments in the Great Lakes region, the United Nations, the African Union and stateless person Zephania Mungani.<\/p>\n<p>Mungani is among an estimated 3000 Shona people living in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur parents came from Zimbabwe, but there was no Zimbabwe in 1960s, they came from Rhodesia,\u201d says Mungani.<\/p>\n<p>John Amugune from Uganda says: \u201cWe are stateless because in the constitution of the Republic of Uganda, the indigenous tribes listed in the 3rd schedule, the Maragoli tribe is not there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/great-lakes-region-adopt-common-approach-to-deal-with-statelessness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/great-lakes-region-adopt-common-approach-to-deal-with-statelessness\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a three day meeting held in Nairobi this week, countries from the Great Lakes region have agreed to adopt a common approach to deal with statelessness in the region. This will involve a common legal framework that will guarantee rights to nationality for all. The meeting brought together representative from governments in the Great [&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-22411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-central-africa","region-east-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411","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=22411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22412,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411\/revisions\/22412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}