{"id":22560,"date":"2019-05-19T15:54:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T15:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=22560"},"modified":"2019-05-20T15:56:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T15:56:56","slug":"kenyan-somali-refugees-claim-they-are-denied-citizenship-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/kenyan-somali-refugees-claim-they-are-denied-citizenship-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Somali refugees claim they are denied citizenship rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Kenyan Somalis registered as Dadaab refugees to access benefits, but say they are now being refused nationality.<\/p>\n<p>by Osman Mohamed Osman<\/p>\n<p>Eastleigh, Kenya &#8211; In a restaurant in Eastleigh, a noisy Nairobi suburb, Shariff Omar, a Kenyan Somali, reaches for a brown folder.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0I have managed to get some names of all the needy people in my neighbourhood,\u00a0\u00bb he said, flipping through documents as he explains how he started a charity project a few weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0We now have to find well-wishers to help these people. They are suffering.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Omar was born in Tana River, a semi-arid county about 500km south of Kenya&rsquo;s capital. Despite his right to Kenyan citizenship, the government classifies him as a Somali refugee.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/kenyan-somali-refugees-claim-denied-citizenship-rights-190516114837043.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/kenyan-somali-refugees-claim-denied-citizenship-rights-190516114837043.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poor Kenyan Somalis registered as Dadaab refugees to access benefits, but say they are now being refused nationality. by Osman Mohamed Osman Eastleigh, Kenya &#8211; In a restaurant in Eastleigh, a noisy Nairobi suburb, Shariff Omar, a Kenyan Somali, reaches for a brown folder. \u00ab\u00a0I have managed to get some names of all the needy [&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-22560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-uncategorized","region-kenya-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-660","item-theme-discrimination-fr","item-theme-ethnique-raciale-religieuse","item-theme-nationalite-et-des-refugies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22560","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=22560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22561,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22560\/revisions\/22561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}