{"id":478,"date":"2011-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/citizenship-and-state-succession-in-the-sudans\/"},"modified":"2016-07-01T13:04:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T13:04:29","slug":"citizenship-and-state-succession-in-the-sudans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/citizenship-and-state-succession-in-the-sudans\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizenship and state succession in the Sudans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Bronwen Manby On July 9, 2011, the Republic of South Sudan became Africa\u2019s newest independent state. Among the many issues that were supposed to have been resolved before the formal secession of the new state\u2014in fact, before the January 9 referendum that approved its creation\u2014was the question of citizenship, and the rules for determining who would become a member of the new entity. This never happened. The legal drafting issues are quite technical, but fundamentally the problem was lack of political will; above all a refusal by the Khartoum government to continue to consider the several hundred thousand \u201csoutherners\u201d resident in the north\u2014some of them for decades, many of them born there\u2014as citizens of the Republic of Sudan. Link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensocietyfoundations.org\/voices\/citizenship-and-state-succession-sudans\">Open Society Foundations website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Bronwen Manby On July 9, 2011, the Republic of South Sudan became Africa\u2019s newest independent state. Among the many issues that were supposed to have been resolved before the formal secession of the new state\u2014in fact, before the January 9 referendum that approved its creation\u2014was the question of citizenship, and the rules for determining [&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-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-east-africa","region-south-sudan","region-sudan","type-blog-posts","item-year-489","item-theme-new-states","item-theme-state-succession"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}