{"id":454,"date":"2012-07-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/south-sudan-millions-wait-for-proof-that-they-are-citizens-of-new-nation\/"},"modified":"2016-08-14T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T14:00:29","slug":"south-sudan-millions-wait-for-proof-that-they-are-citizens-of-new-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/south-sudan-millions-wait-for-proof-that-they-are-citizens-of-new-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan: Millions wait for proof that they are citizens of new nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarnata Reynolds, Refugees International<\/p>\n<p>One year after South Sudan gained independence, many southerners are still waiting for the slips of paper that will prove they are citizens of the world&#8217;s newest nation and grant them access to employment, a bank account, justice before the courts and other crucial privileges. More than eight million people in <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-sudan\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">South Sudan<\/a> await proof of their nationality, while an additional half a million southerners still in Sudan are at a high risk of statelessness after being stripped of their Sudanese nationality in August 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on Guardian website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/global-development\/poverty-matters\/2012\/jul\/10\/south-sudan-proof-citizens-nation\">South Sudan: Millions Wait for Proof They are Citizens of New Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Sarnata Reynolds, Refugees International One year after South Sudan gained independence, many southerners are still waiting for the slips of paper that will prove they are citizens of the world&#8217;s newest nation and grant them access to employment, a bank account, justice before the courts and other crucial privileges. More than eight million people [&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-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-east-africa","region-south-sudan","type-news-articles","item-year-490","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports","item-theme-identity-documents","item-theme-new-states","item-theme-state-succession"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","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=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9123,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/9123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}