{"id":36370,"date":"2022-08-06T06:34:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T06:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=36370"},"modified":"2022-08-08T06:42:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T06:42:27","slug":"meet-kenyan-community-voting-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/meet-kenyan-community-voting-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Kenyan Community Voting for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By MAUREEN NJERI<\/p>\n<p>The Shona will participate in their first ever General Election n Kenya nearly six decades after the community migrated from Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to BBC Africa, the community secretary general Oliver Muregerera was excited\u00a0to finally exercise his civil rights\u00a0like other Kenyans.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0I am very happy to be voting for the first time. I am now a recognized Kenyan citizen. I am free,\u00a0\u00bb he said.<\/p>\n<p>The community, consisting of about 4,000 people, was recognised by the government in 2020\u00a0after years of living as stateless citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenyans.co.ke\/news\/78093-meet-kenyan-community-voting-first-time\">https:\/\/www.kenyans.co.ke\/news\/78093-meet-kenyan-community-voting-first-time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch BBC report: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-africa-62437130\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/world-africa-62437130<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By MAUREEN NJERI The Shona will participate in their first ever General Election n Kenya nearly six decades after the community migrated from Zimbabwe. Speaking to BBC Africa, the community secretary general Oliver Muregerera was excited\u00a0to finally exercise his civil rights\u00a0like other Kenyans. \u00ab\u00a0I am very happy to be voting for the first time. I [&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-36370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-kenya-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-683","item-theme-inscription-aux-listes-electorales"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36370","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=36370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36373,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36370\/revisions\/36373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}