{"id":34399,"date":"2021-05-22T15:38:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T15:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=34399"},"modified":"2022-01-18T16:43:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T16:43:49","slug":"south-sudan-mp-animus-appointment-revoked-over-nationality-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/south-sudan-mp-animus-appointment-revoked-over-nationality-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan: MP Animu\u2019s appointment revoked over \u2018nationality issues&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jale Richard<\/p>\n<p>President Salva Kiir has revoked the appointment of Afekuru Animu Risasi as a member of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Kiir then appointed Hon. Joseph Lual Achuil from the SPLM party as a replacement.<\/p>\n<p>No reasons were cited for the change announced on state TV on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Animu was appointed nearly two weeks ago under the Other Political Parties (OPP) ticket.<\/p>\n<p>But her appointment caused public uproar with some netizens questioning her nationality, alleging that she is a Ugandan national.<\/p>\n<p>The community of Lujule Payam of Morobo County\u2014where she allegedly hails, disowned her in a public statement.<\/p>\n<p>Some people shared photos of her passport and nationality cards\u2014one indicating she is a South Sudanese, while the other shows she is a Ugandan national.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/eyeradio.org\/mp-animus-appointment-revoked-over-nationality-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/eyeradio.org\/mp-animus-appointment-revoked-over-nationality-issues\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jale Richard President Salva Kiir has revoked the appointment of Afekuru Animu Risasi as a member of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly. Kiir then appointed Hon. Joseph Lual Achuil from the SPLM party as a replacement. No reasons were cited for the change announced on state TV on Friday evening. Animu was appointed nearly [&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-34399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-sudan","type-news-articles","item-year-676","item-theme-dual-nationality","item-theme-nationality-of-politicians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34399","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=34399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34415,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34399\/revisions\/34415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}