{"id":16571,"date":"2018-04-04T11:11:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T11:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=16571"},"modified":"2018-04-05T11:13:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T11:13:27","slug":"dr-congo-presidential-aspirant-katumbi-held-italian-citizenship-town-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/dr-congo-presidential-aspirant-katumbi-held-italian-citizenship-town-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo presidential aspirant Katumbi held Italian citizenship, town confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congolese opposition leader Moise Katumbi held Italian citizenship from October 2000 until January 2017, the Italian town where he was a resident said on Wednesday, jeopardising his hopes of contesting a presidential election later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s attorney general said last week he had opened an investigation into allegations about Katumbi\u2019s Italian nationality, first reported by Paris-based magazine Jeune Afrique.<\/p>\n<p>Under Congo\u2019s constitution, its nationals cannot hold dual citizenship and have to petition the government to regain their citizenship if they take up a foreign nationality.<\/p>\n<p>The provision, however, is laxly enforced and many prominent politicians are believed to have second citizenships.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2018\/04\/04\/dr-congo-presidential-aspirant-katumbi-held-italian-citizenship-town-confirms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2018\/04\/04\/dr-congo-presidential-aspirant-katumbi-held-italian-citizenship-town-confirms\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Congolese opposition leader Moise Katumbi held Italian citizenship from October 2000 until January 2017, the Italian town where he was a resident said on Wednesday, jeopardising his hopes of contesting a presidential election later this year. Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s attorney general said last week he had opened an investigation into allegations about Katumbi\u2019s Italian [&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":[499,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-uncategorized","region-republique-democratique-du-congo","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-642","item-theme-double-nationalite","item-theme-nationalite-des-politiciens"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16571","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=16571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16572,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16571\/revisions\/16572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}