{"id":39818,"date":"2023-12-20T10:16:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T10:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=39818"},"modified":"2023-12-21T10:20:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T10:20:12","slug":"tanzania-act-wazalendo-pushing-for-dual-citizenship-not-special-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/tanzania-act-wazalendo-pushing-for-dual-citizenship-not-special-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania: ACT Wazalendo pushing for dual citizenship, not \u2018special status\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Owere<\/p>\n<p>Dar es Salaam. The recent announcement by Foreign Affairs Minister January Makamba about granting &#8220;special status&#8221; to the Tanzanian diaspora has drawn mixed reactions, with the opposition ACT Wazalendo party voicing strong reservations.<\/p>\n<p>While acknowledging the Minister&#8217;s initiative, ACT Wazalendo argues that it amounts to mere \u2018lipstick\u2019 and falls short of the true recognition deserved by Tanzanians living abroad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For ACT Wazalendo, special status is just a cosmetic measure,&#8221; declared Ms Nasra Nassor Omar, the party&#8217;s Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What our fellow citizens scattered across the globe deserve is the full embrace of dual citizenship, not a halfway house with limited rights and privileges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecitizen.co.tz\/tanzania\/news\/act-wazalendo-pushing-for-dual-citizenship-not-special-status--4470344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.thecitizen.co.tz\/tanzania\/news\/act-wazalendo-pushing-for-dual-citizenship-not-special-status&#8211;4470344<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Paul Owere Dar es Salaam. The recent announcement by Foreign Affairs Minister January Makamba about granting &#8220;special status&#8221; to the Tanzanian diaspora has drawn mixed reactions, with the opposition ACT Wazalendo party voicing strong reservations. While acknowledging the Minister&#8217;s initiative, ACT Wazalendo argues that it amounts to mere \u2018lipstick\u2019 and falls short of the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39818","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\/39818","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=39818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39819,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39818\/revisions\/39819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}