{"id":22558,"date":"2019-05-19T15:54:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T15:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=22558"},"modified":"2019-05-20T15:56:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T15:56:55","slug":"kenyan-somali-refugees-claim-they-are-denied-citizenship-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/kenyan-somali-refugees-claim-they-are-denied-citizenship-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Somali refugees claim they are denied citizenship rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Kenyan Somalis registered as Dadaab refugees to access benefits, but say they are now being refused nationality.<\/p>\n<p>by Osman Mohamed Osman<\/p>\n<p>Eastleigh, Kenya &#8211; In a restaurant in Eastleigh, a noisy Nairobi suburb, Shariff Omar, a Kenyan Somali, reaches for a brown folder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have managed to get some names of all the needy people in my neighbourhood,&#8221; he said, flipping through documents as he explains how he started a charity project a few weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We now have to find well-wishers to help these people. They are suffering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Omar was born in Tana River, a semi-arid county about 500km south of Kenya&#8217;s capital. Despite his right to Kenyan citizenship, the government classifies him as a Somali refugee.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/kenyan-somali-refugees-claim-denied-citizenship-rights-190516114837043.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/kenyan-somali-refugees-claim-denied-citizenship-rights-190516114837043.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poor Kenyan Somalis registered as Dadaab refugees to access benefits, but say they are now being refused nationality. by Osman Mohamed Osman Eastleigh, Kenya &#8211; In a restaurant in Eastleigh, a noisy Nairobi suburb, Shariff Omar, a Kenyan Somali, reaches for a brown folder. &#8220;I have managed to get some names of all the needy [&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-22558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious","item-theme-nationality-and-refugees"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22558","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=22558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22559,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22558\/revisions\/22559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}