{"id":41284,"date":"2024-08-27T11:26:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T11:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=41284"},"modified":"2024-08-28T11:27:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T11:27:59","slug":"avaaz-defends-maasai-citizens-right-to-vote-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/avaaz-defends-maasai-citizens-right-to-vote-in-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Avaaz defends Maasai citizens\u2019 right to vote in Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from ALLOYCE KIMBUNGA<\/p>\n<p>DAR-ES-SALAAM, (CAJ News) \u2013 TANZANIA stands accused of stripping some indigenous Maasai citizens of their right to vote ahead of the local elections in November.<\/p>\n<p>Avaaz, a global campaign network and non-profit organisation, has alleged that some 100 000 Maasai citizens have been erased from the voter rolls.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after earlier allegations that thousands of indigenous Maasai were being removed from their areas of residence to make way for safari tourism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, they\u2019re taking it a step further by stripping the brave few that remain at home in the Ngorongoro district of their right to vote,\u201d Avaaz stated in a petition.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cajnewsafrica.com\/2024\/08\/27\/avaaz-defends-maasai-citizens-right-to-vote-in-tanzania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.cajnewsafrica.com\/2024\/08\/27\/avaaz-defends-maasai-citizens-right-to-vote-in-tanzania\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"from ALLOYCE KIMBUNGA DAR-ES-SALAAM, (CAJ News) \u2013 TANZANIA stands accused of stripping some indigenous Maasai citizens of their right to vote ahead of the local elections in November. Avaaz, a global campaign network and non-profit organisation, has alleged that some 100 000 Maasai citizens have been erased from the voter rolls. This comes after earlier [&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-41284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-tanzania","type-news-articles","item-year-695","item-theme-loss-and-deprivation-of-nationality","item-theme-voter-registration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41284","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=41284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41285,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41284\/revisions\/41285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}