{"id":10466,"date":"2016-05-17T14:25:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T14:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=10466&#038;lang=fr"},"modified":"2016-10-19T14:28:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T14:28:26","slug":"the-controversial-plan-to-give-kuwaits-stateless-people-citizenship-of-a-tiny-poor-african-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/the-controversial-plan-to-give-kuwaits-stateless-people-citizenship-of-a-tiny-poor-african-island\/","title":{"rendered":"The controversial plan to give Kuwait\u2019s stateless people citizenship of a tiny, poor African island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Taylor<\/p>\n<p>Comoros, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, is one of the smallest countries in Africa. Excluding the contested island of Mayotte, the Comoros archipelago covers about\u00a0640 square miles, roughly\u00a0half the size of Rhode Island. Fewer\u00a0than a million people live on the islands, made up of a variety of ethnicities\u00a0that\u00a0reflect the nation&rsquo;s location\u00a0at a historical crossroads.<\/p>\n<p>But if\u00a0a new plan gets the go-ahead, Comoros may gain significantly more citizens \u2014\u00a0by offering\u00a0thousands, if not many more, of stateless people from Kuwait \u00ab\u00a0economic citizenship.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>And many experts are not so sure this is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2016\/05\/17\/the-controversial-plan-to-give-kuwaits-stateless-people-citizenship-of-a-tiny-poor-african-island\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2016\/05\/17\/the-controversial-plan-to-give-kuwaits-stateless-people-citizenship-of-a-tiny-poor-african-island\/ <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Adam Taylor Comoros, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, is one of the smallest countries in Africa. Excluding the contested island of Mayotte, the Comoros archipelago covers about\u00a0640 square miles, roughly\u00a0half the size of Rhode Island. Fewer\u00a0than a million people live on the islands, made up of a variety of ethnicities\u00a0that\u00a0reflect the nation&rsquo;s [&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":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-comores","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-395","item-theme-apatridie","item-theme-naturalisation-et-le-mariage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10467,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466\/revisions\/10467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}