{"id":25610,"date":"2019-12-03T19:04:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T19:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=25610"},"modified":"2020-02-20T09:02:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T09:02:37","slug":"tanzanias-stolen-civic-elections-an-urgent-call-to-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/tanzanias-stolen-civic-elections-an-urgent-call-to-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania\u2019s stolen civic elections: An urgent call to action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Zitto Kabwe<\/p>\n<p><i>Zitto Kabwe is the leader of ACT Wazalendo<\/i><\/p>\n<p>A strong, stable and democratic Tanzania is essential for a strong, stable and democratic East Africa. An unstable, undemocratic Tanzania with burgeoning unrest can only spell bad news for the region and the continent as a whole. The developments surrounding the November 2019 civic elections should be taken very seriously, both domestically and internationally.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In Kigoma, candidates who were born and bred Tanzanians were not approved because they were alleged to not be citizens.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2019-12-03-tanzanias-stolen-civic-elections-an-urgent-call-to-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2019-12-03-tanzanias-stolen-civic-elections-an-urgent-call-to-action\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Zitto Kabwe Zitto Kabwe is the leader of ACT Wazalendo A strong, stable and democratic Tanzania is essential for a strong, stable and democratic East Africa. An unstable, undemocratic Tanzania with burgeoning unrest can only spell bad news for the region and the continent as a whole. The developments surrounding the November 2019 civic [&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-25610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-tanzania","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-nationality-of-politicians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610","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=25610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26452,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610\/revisions\/26452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}