{"id":39495,"date":"2023-05-16T20:01:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T20:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=39495"},"modified":"2023-10-14T20:04:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T20:04:30","slug":"tanzania-says-not-yet-time-to-allow-dual-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/tanzania-says-not-yet-time-to-allow-dual-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania says \u2018not yet time\u2019 to allow dual citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Brian Okoth<\/p>\n<p>The Tanzanian government has maintained it is not yet the right time to allow its citizens the option of holding dual citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Home Affairs minister, Hamad Masauni, told parliament on Monday that the government had commissioned opinion polls on the matter, and that a majority of the citizens were against dual citizenship \u201cfor now\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In previous statements, the State said dual citizenship would \u201cconfuse\u201d many Tanzanians and \u201ccause inequality\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trtafrika.com\/africa\/tanzania-says-not-yet-time-to-allow-dual-citizenship-13262352\">https:\/\/www.trtafrika.com\/africa\/tanzania-says-not-yet-time-to-allow-dual-citizenship-13262352<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Brian Okoth The Tanzanian government has maintained it is not yet the right time to allow its citizens the option of holding dual citizenship. Home Affairs minister, Hamad Masauni, told parliament on Monday that the government had commissioned opinion polls on the matter, and that a majority of the citizens were against dual citizenship [&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-39495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-tanzania","type-news-articles","item-year-691","item-theme-dual-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39495","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=39495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39496,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39495\/revisions\/39496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}