{"id":26404,"date":"2020-02-12T21:57:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T21:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=26404"},"modified":"2020-02-12T21:57:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T21:57:33","slug":"ethiopia-vote-agency-queries-key-opposition-leaders-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/ethiopia-vote-agency-queries-key-opposition-leaders-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Vote Agency Queries Key Opposition Leader\u2019s Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia\u2019s electoral agency asked immigration authorities to establish the citizenship of a prominent critic of the Horn of Africa government\u2019s leadership, just months before national elections.<\/p>\n<p>Jawar Mohammed, a member of the Oromo Federalist Congress, gave up his U.S. citizenship so he could participate in Ethiopian elections scheduled for August. He\u2019s yet to say what post he\u2019ll be seeking.<\/p>\n<p>The National Electoral Board wants clarification from Ethiopia\u2019s Immigration Department by Feb. 17 on the technicalities for regaining Ethiopian citizenship, according to a statement on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-02-12\/ethiopia-vote-agency-queries-key-opposition-leader-s-citizenship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-02-12\/ethiopia-vote-agency-queries-key-opposition-leader-s-citizenship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethiopia\u2019s electoral agency asked immigration authorities to establish the citizenship of a prominent critic of the Horn of Africa government\u2019s leadership, just months before national elections. Jawar Mohammed, a member of the Oromo Federalist Congress, gave up his U.S. citizenship so he could participate in Ethiopian elections scheduled for August. He\u2019s yet to say what [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-ethiopie","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-668","item-theme-nationalite-des-politiciens"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26404","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=26404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26405,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26404\/revisions\/26405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}