{"id":42890,"date":"2026-02-10T12:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=42890"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:45:33","slug":"kenya-struggles-of-warundi-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/kenya-struggles-of-warundi-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Struggles of Warundi Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> Stateless Kwale Woman Narrates &#8216;Borrowing Grave&#8217; to Bury Her Father<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Joshua Cheloti, Harrison Kivisu<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kenyan-born woman in Kwale county shared the challenges she has faced due to a lack of a national identity card 42-year-old<\/li>\n<li>Esther Butui Ndambara is among the over 2,000 members of the Warundi community in Kenya who are stateless<\/li>\n<li>Esther told TUKO.co.ke that a lack of an ID has exposed her to a miserable life, including being forced to borrow a grave to bury her father<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuko.co.ke\/editorial\/feature\/617493-struggles-warundi-community-stateless-kwale-woman-narrates-borrowing-grave-bury-father\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.tuko.co.ke\/editorial\/feature\/617493-struggles-warundi-community-stateless-kwale-woman-narrates-borrowing-grave-bury-father\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stateless Kwale Woman Narrates &#8216;Borrowing Grave&#8217; to Bury Her Father by Joshua Cheloti, Harrison Kivisu Kenyan-born woman in Kwale county shared the challenges she has faced due to a lack of a national identity card 42-year-old Esther Butui Ndambara is among the over 2,000 members of the Warundi community in Kenya who are stateless Esther [&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-42890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-699","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42890","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=42890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42891,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42890\/revisions\/42891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}