{"id":41849,"date":"2024-11-10T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=41849"},"modified":"2024-11-11T09:02:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T09:02:53","slug":"trapped-in-saudi-hell-kenyan-mothers-fight-for-their-stateless-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/trapped-in-saudi-hell-kenyan-mothers-fight-for-their-stateless-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Trapped in Saudi hell: Kenyan mothers fight for their stateless children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jacinta Mutura<\/p>\n<p>For eight years, Blessings Iminza has lived without an identity. Each new day is a painful reminder that her dream of returning home remains just that\u2014a dream.<\/p>\n<p>She is not alone; thousands of children born to Kenyan mothers in Saudi Arabia share her fate, trapped in statelessness.<\/p>\n<p>They are of mixed descent; they are unrecognised back in their mothers\u2019 country while their fathers\u2019 countries do not know they exist. Equally, the host country does not know they exist.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/national\/article\/2001506122\/trapped-in-saudi-hell-kenyan-mothers-fight-for-their-stateless-children\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/national\/article\/2001506122\/trapped-in-saudi-hell-kenyan-mothers-fight-for-their-stateless-children<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jacinta Mutura For eight years, Blessings Iminza has lived without an identity. Each new day is a painful reminder that her dream of returning home remains just that\u2014a dream. She is not alone; thousands of children born to Kenyan mothers in Saudi Arabia share her fate, trapped in statelessness. They are of mixed descent; [&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-41849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-695","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-gender","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41849","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=41849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41850,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41849\/revisions\/41850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}