{"id":33108,"date":"2021-03-15T11:48:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T11:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=33108"},"modified":"2021-09-06T11:50:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T11:50:44","slug":"ugandans-of-rwandan-origin-move-to-drop-banyarwanda-name-over-growing-segregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/ugandans-of-rwandan-origin-move-to-drop-banyarwanda-name-over-growing-segregation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandans of Rwandan Origin Move to Drop \u201cBanyarwanda\u201d Name Over Growing Segregation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sam Waswa<\/p>\n<p>Ugandans who have origins in neighboring Rwanda are pushing for renaming of their ethnicity from \u201cBanyarwanda\u201d to \u201cAbavandimwe\u201d or \u201cBrethren\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal is meant to address growing concerns about these people who have legal claim on Ugandan nationality, being discriminated and denied services both at the communal and government level.<\/p>\n<p>The name change is being floated by the \u201cCouncil of Abavindimwe\u201d which was previously known the \u201cCouncil for Banyarwanda\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing press at Kampala Serena Hotel on Monday, the council members noted that Ugandan citizens with Rwanda heritage, including those born and raised in Uganda have for decades continued to suffer discrimination because they are branded as \u201cBanyarwanda\u201d which means Rwandan nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/chimpreports.com\/ugandans-of-rwandan-origin-move-to-drop-banyarwanda-name-over-growing-segregation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/chimpreports.com\/ugandans-of-rwandan-origin-move-to-drop-banyarwanda-name-over-growing-segregation\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Sam Waswa Ugandans who have origins in neighboring Rwanda are pushing for renaming of their ethnicity from \u201cBanyarwanda\u201d to \u201cAbavandimwe\u201d or \u201cBrethren\u201d. The proposal is meant to address growing concerns about these people who have legal claim on Ugandan nationality, being discriminated and denied services both at the communal and government level. The name [&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-33108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-ouganda","type-articles-de-presse","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\/33108","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=33108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33110,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33108\/revisions\/33110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}