{"id":22895,"date":"2019-06-12T10:33:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T10:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=22895"},"modified":"2019-06-12T17:38:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T17:38:03","slug":"stateless-in-africa-why-700000-have-their-dreams-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/stateless-in-africa-why-700000-have-their-dreams-ended\/","title":{"rendered":"Stateless in Africa: Why 700,000 have their &#8216;dreams ended&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen-year-old Peter should be preparing for his future by taking his final exams.<\/p>\n<p>However, he is one of the 700,000 stateless citizens in Africa, which means he won&#8217;t be able to finish his schooling.<\/p>\n<p>Peter is part of a small Shona community in Kenya, whose Zimbabwean ancestors travelled to Nairobi as missionaries in the 60s. That means he is neither a citizen of Kenya or Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Christine Njeri from BBC What&#8217;s New? reports on what the African Union is planning on doing to secure these people their future.<\/p>\n<p>Watch: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-africa-48562670\/stateless-in-africa-why-700000-have-their-dreams-ended\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-africa-48562670\/stateless-in-africa-why-700000-have-their-dreams-ended<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sixteen-year-old Peter should be preparing for his future by taking his final exams. However, he is one of the 700,000 stateless citizens in Africa, which means he won&#8217;t be able to finish his schooling. Peter is part of a small Shona community in Kenya, whose Zimbabwean ancestors travelled to Nairobi as missionaries in the 60s. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22895","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=22895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22899,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22895\/revisions\/22899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}