{"id":39148,"date":"2023-08-08T16:18:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T16:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=39148"},"modified":"2023-08-08T16:18:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T16:18:54","slug":"minority-karanas-in-madagascar-lead-clandestine-lives-with-no-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/minority-karanas-in-madagascar-lead-clandestine-lives-with-no-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority Karanas in Madagascar lead clandestine lives with no citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Lola Hierro<\/p>\n<p>Mahmud Hashimi stirs his cup of coffee as he sits on a spotless sofa in the lobby of the exclusive Carlton hotel in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. A casual onlooker would have no reason to think this 38-year-old man with a nervous look shouldn\u2019t be in this luxurious five-star hotel. But it\u2019s not his natural environment. Hashimi (who prefers not to tell us his real name) cannot afford the $122 (\u20ac111) for a room here because he\u2019s barely making ends meet. Even if he had extra money, he wouldn\u2019t be allowed to register because he doesn\u2019t have a passport or an ID card. Hashimi is stateless \u2014 a citizen of no country. Being stateless is the inability to vote, access public services, obtain employment contracts or open a bank account.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article: <a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/international\/2023-08-08\/minority-karanas-in-madagascar-lead-clandestine-lives-with-no-citizenship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/international\/2023-08-08\/minority-karanas-in-madagascar-lead-clandestine-lives-with-no-citizenship.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Lola Hierro Mahmud Hashimi stirs his cup of coffee as he sits on a spotless sofa in the lobby of the exclusive Carlton hotel in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. A casual onlooker would have no reason to think this 38-year-old man with a nervous look shouldn\u2019t be in this luxurious five-star hotel. But [&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-39148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-madagascar","type-news-articles","item-year-691","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39148","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=39148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39149,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39148\/revisions\/39149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}