{"id":26433,"date":"2020-02-13T12:35:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T12:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=26433"},"modified":"2020-02-15T12:37:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T12:37:27","slug":"namibia-sham-marriages-quandary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/namibia-sham-marriages-quandary\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Sham marriages quandary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Roxane Bayer<\/p>\n<p>THE Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration is investigating 70 cases of sham marriages between Namibians and foreign nationals.<\/p>\n<p>During a media briefing in Windhoek yesterday, the deputy minister of home affairs and immigration, Maureen Hinda-Mbuende, revealed that of the 70 cases, 10 have been concluded and arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>She, however, stated that more arrests will be made and that there are more cases of fake marriages that the ministry is unaware of.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens of Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Pakistan and especially Egypt make up the majority of perpetrators, targeting mostly women between the ages of 25 and 40 to obtain permanent residence in Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.namibian.com.na\/index.php?id=88104&amp;page=read\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.namibian.com.na\/index.php?id=88104&amp;page=read<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Roxane Bayer THE Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration is investigating 70 cases of sham marriages between Namibians and foreign nationals. During a media briefing in Windhoek yesterday, the deputy minister of home affairs and immigration, Maureen Hinda-Mbuende, revealed that of the 70 cases, 10 have been concluded and arrests have been made. She, [&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-26433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-namibia","type-news-articles","item-year-668","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26433","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=26433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26435,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26433\/revisions\/26435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}