{"id":42919,"date":"2026-03-03T11:13:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=42919"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:15:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:15:03","slug":"govt-still-silent-as-questions-rise-over-illegal-issuance-of-kenyan-passports-to-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/govt-still-silent-as-questions-rise-over-illegal-issuance-of-kenyan-passports-to-foreigners\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t still silent as questions rise over illegal issuance of Kenyan passports to foreigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Brenda Wanga<\/p>\n<p>The deafening silence from the government continues to echo days after revelations of abuse of processes to issue Kenyan passports to members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Interior and the Department of Immigration are yet to explain how Kenyan travel documents ended up in the hands of individuals linked to atrocities in Sudan and suspected dealings in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>It is now almost a week since a leaked internal document from the Department of Immigration exposed a scandal that strikes at the heart of national security.<\/p>\n<p>The document contained a list of individuals, the majority of them Sudanese nationals, alongside tracking numbers of Kenyan passport applications. Around the same time, the United States released a sanctions list that included a Sudanese national with ties to the RSF.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.digital\/article\/govt-still-silent-as-questions-rise-over-illegal-issuance-of-kenyan-passports-to-foreigners-n378400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.citizen.digital\/article\/govt-still-silent-as-questions-rise-over-illegal-issuance-of-kenyan-passports-to-foreigners-n378400<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Brenda Wanga The deafening silence from the government continues to echo days after revelations of abuse of processes to issue Kenyan passports to members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The Ministry of Interior and the Department of Immigration are yet to explain how Kenyan travel documents ended up in the hands of individuals [&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-42919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-699","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42919","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=42919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42920,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42919\/revisions\/42920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}