{"id":42072,"date":"2025-01-22T15:53:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=42072"},"modified":"2025-01-23T15:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T15:55:18","slug":"uganda-banyarwanda-citizenship-claimants-umubano-reject-presidential-directive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/uganda-banyarwanda-citizenship-claimants-umubano-reject-presidential-directive\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Banyarwanda Citizenship Claimants Umubano Reject Presidential Directive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ugandan-Banyarwanda Cultural Development Association, known by their acronym as Umubano, has rejected a directive by President Museveni on citizenship rights, labelling it discriminatory and unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The directive, passed during a recent meeting at State House Entebbe, limits recognition of Ugandan-Banyarwanda citizenship to individuals from Kisoro, Ntungamo, Mpororo, and those born of intermarriages, leaving out significant clusters within the community.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/nilepost.co.ug\/news\/238560\/banyarwanda-citizenship-claimants-umubano-reject-presidential-directive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/nilepost.co.ug\/news\/238560\/banyarwanda-citizenship-claimants-umubano-reject-presidential-directive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ugandan-Banyarwanda Cultural Development Association, known by their acronym as Umubano, has rejected a directive by President Museveni on citizenship rights, labelling it discriminatory and unconstitutional. The directive, passed during a recent meeting at State House Entebbe, limits recognition of Ugandan-Banyarwanda citizenship to individuals from Kisoro, Ntungamo, Mpororo, and those born of intermarriages, leaving out [&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-42072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-uganda","type-news-articles","item-year-683","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42072","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=42072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42073,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42072\/revisions\/42073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}