{"id":32172,"date":"2020-10-02T11:33:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T11:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=32172"},"modified":"2021-06-23T11:35:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T11:35:52","slug":"nubians-demand-ids-recognition-as-one-of-kenyas-ethnic-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/nubians-demand-ids-recognition-as-one-of-kenyas-ethnic-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Nubians demand IDs, recognition as one of Kenya&rsquo;s ethnic groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by MARY KIMANI<\/p>\n<p>Nubians have questioned the government&rsquo;s delay to issue them with national identity cards.<\/p>\n<p>The Nubian Rights Forum says it will soon writing a letter to President Uhuru Kenyatta over the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Friday during a press briefing at their offices in Kibera, Nairobi, the forum&rsquo;s chairman Shafi Hussein said that since Independence, the quest to have Nubians recognised by the state has been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fight to have Nubians own IDs and get recognised has been long and tiring, yet the government has continued to delay the matter,\u201d Hussein said.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/news\/2020-10-02-nubians-demand-ids-recognition-as-one-of-kenyas-ethnic-groups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/news\/2020-10-02-nubians-demand-ids-recognition-as-one-of-kenyas-ethnic-groups\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by MARY KIMANI Nubians have questioned the government&rsquo;s delay to issue them with national identity cards. The Nubian Rights Forum says it will soon writing a letter to President Uhuru Kenyatta over the issue. Speaking on Friday during a press briefing at their offices in Kibera, Nairobi, the forum&rsquo;s chairman Shafi Hussein said that since [&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-32172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-kenya-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-668","item-theme-documents-d-identite-et-passeports","item-theme-discrimination-fr","item-theme-ethnique-raciale-religieuse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32172","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=32172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32173,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32172\/revisions\/32173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}