{"id":9390,"date":"2016-08-21T14:44:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T14:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=9390"},"modified":"2016-08-26T10:01:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T10:01:56","slug":"state-discrimination-against-kenyan-nubians-is-an-abuse-of-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/state-discrimination-against-kenyan-nubians-is-an-abuse-of-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"State discrimination against Kenyan Nubians is an abuse of rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They have been denied national identity cards and passports for more than a century.<\/p>\n<p>In Summary<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After independence, tribe became the main factor determining which groups and regions would be allocated public resources.<\/li>\n<li>Those belonging to non-indigenous ethnic groups were forced to use patronage networks to access their rights as citizens.<\/li>\n<li>This led to politics of exclusion, which, unfortunately, seems to have become more entrenched under the UhuRuto government, which has created a perception that Kenya now belongs mainly to two tribes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By Rasna Warah<\/p>\n<p>Last week I talked about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/oped\/Opinion\/unless-we-beat-corruption-kenya-will-not-attract-investors-\/440808-3344602-7reoim\/\" target=\"_blank\">how government departments have been infiltrated by so-called \u201cagents\u201d who collect bribes on behalf of their colleagues before a particular service<\/a>, such as obtaining a passport or an ID, can be rendered.<\/p>\n<p>This week I am going talk about people in Kenya who have been denied IDs and passports for more than a century, not because they failed to pay a bribe, but simply because they are Nubians.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/oped\/Opinion\/state-discrimination-against-kenyan-nubians-an-abuse-of-rights\/440808-3352904-12ro4jk\/index.html\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They have been denied national identity cards and passports for more than a century. In Summary After independence, tribe became the main factor determining which groups and regions would be allocated public resources. Those belonging to non-indigenous ethnic groups were forced to use patronage networks to access their rights as citizens. This led to politics [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"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-9390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-395","item-theme-identity-documents","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9390","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9390"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9662,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9390\/revisions\/9662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}