{"id":32650,"date":"2021-07-30T16:19:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T16:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=32650"},"modified":"2021-07-30T16:19:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T16:19:47","slug":"shona-kenyas-newest-tribe-as-1649-granted-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/shona-kenyas-newest-tribe-as-1649-granted-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Shona Kenya\u2019s newest tribe as 1,649 granted citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>By Mercy Chelangat &amp; Mercy Simiyu<\/p>\n<p>This is after 1,649 members of the community, who had been stateless, were presented with citizenship certificates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>Speaking during the ceremony on Wednesday, Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang\u2019i said all stateless people who are eligible for Kenyan citizenship will be recognised as citizens by this year\u2019s Jamhuri Day celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.africa\/kenya\/news\/shona-kenya-s-newest-tribe-as-1-649-granted-citizenship-3491820\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/nation.africa\/kenya\/news\/shona-kenya-s-newest-tribe-as-1-649-granted-citizenship-3491820<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Mercy Chelangat &amp; Mercy Simiyu This is after 1,649 members of the community, who had been stateless, were presented with citizenship certificates. Speaking during the ceremony on Wednesday, Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang\u2019i said all stateless people who are eligible for Kenyan citizenship will be recognised as citizens by this year\u2019s Jamhuri Day celebrations. [&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-32650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-676","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32650","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=32650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32651,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32650\/revisions\/32651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}