{"id":41986,"date":"2024-12-20T15:38:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=41986"},"modified":"2024-12-20T15:38:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:38:38","slug":"kenyas-stateless-tanzanian-widows-their-children-are-kenyan-husbands-were-kenyan-but-they-are-nobody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/kenyas-stateless-tanzanian-widows-their-children-are-kenyan-husbands-were-kenyan-but-they-are-nobody\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s stateless Tanzanian widows: Their children are Kenyan, husbands were Kenyan, but they are nobody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Moraa Obiria<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tanzanian widows who married Kenyan men decades ago find themselves trapped in a cruel legal limbo, unable to obtain ID cards that would grant them basic rights despite having Kenyan children.<\/li>\n<li>Without documentation, they can&#8217;t claim their deceased husbands&#8217; pensions, access social services, own property, or even open bank accounts &#8211; forcing many into extreme poverty.<\/li>\n<li>While their children are recognised as Kenyan citizens, these mothers remain invisible to the system, caught between Tanzania&#8217;s prohibition of dual citizenship and Kenya&#8217;s complex registration requirements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.africa\/kenya\/news\/gender\/kenya-s-stateless-tanzanian-widows-their-children-are-kenyan-husbands-were-kenyan-but-they-are-nobody-4859192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/nation.africa\/kenya\/news\/gender\/kenya-s-stateless-tanzanian-widows-their-children-are-kenyan-husbands-were-kenyan-but-they-are-nobody-4859192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Moraa Obiria Tanzanian widows who married Kenyan men decades ago find themselves trapped in a cruel legal limbo, unable to obtain ID cards that would grant them basic rights despite having Kenyan children. Without documentation, they can&#8217;t claim their deceased husbands&#8217; pensions, access social services, own property, or even open bank accounts &#8211; forcing [&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-41986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-695","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41986","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=41986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41987,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41986\/revisions\/41987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}