{"id":23983,"date":"2019-10-08T07:30:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T07:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=23983"},"modified":"2019-11-07T14:43:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T14:43:24","slug":"end-of-statelessness-in-sight-for-shona-as-kenya-issues-birth-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/end-of-statelessness-in-sight-for-shona-as-kenya-issues-birth-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"End of statelessness in sight for Shona as Kenya issues birth certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Maina Waweru<\/p>\n<p>NAIROBI, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) &#8211; Happiness Kapota will remember forever the day when her children lined up in Nairobi to receive their birth certificates.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce, Caleb and Sidet Moyo were among the first children from Kenya\u2019s stateless Shona group to receive the government-issued certificates, which will give them opportunities and rights long denied to the Shona.<\/p>\n<p>The day was particularly poignant for Kapota, 25, because she was barred from sitting a key school exam for lack of documents, forcing her to drop out at 15.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy teachers tried to help but there\u2019s nothing they could do, so I dropped out and became a housemaid since we were very poor,\u201d Kapota told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, adding she hoped to return to school one day.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20191008103337-edk1m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20191008103337-edk1m<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Maina Waweru NAIROBI, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) &#8211; Happiness Kapota will remember forever the day when her children lined up in Nairobi to receive their birth certificates. Joyce, Caleb and Sidet Moyo were among the first children from Kenya\u2019s stateless Shona group to receive the government-issued certificates, which will give them opportunities and rights [&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-23983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-kenya-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-660","item-theme-acquisition-de-la-nationalite","item-theme-acquisition-par-les-enfants","item-theme-apatridie","item-theme-enregistrement-des-naissances"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23983","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=23983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23984,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23983\/revisions\/23984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}