{"id":36735,"date":"2021-10-10T13:50:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T13:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=36735"},"modified":"2022-10-25T13:56:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T13:56:28","slug":"kenya-mps-want-nubians-recognized-as-a-tribe-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/kenya-mps-want-nubians-recognized-as-a-tribe-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: MPs Want Nubians Recognized as a Tribe in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By John Wanjohi<\/p>\n<p>The National Assembly\u2019s Administration and National Security Committee has endorsed a petition seeking to have the Nubian community recognized as a tribe in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>The committee directed Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang\u2019i to commence the process of recognizing Nubians as a tribe within three months.<\/p>\n<p>Although the government recognizes members of the community as Kenyans, they are classified as \u201cother Kenyans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In its petition, the Nubian community cited discrimination in the issuance of national identity cards as the main reason why they want to be recognized as a tribe.<\/p>\n<p>The House team further wants Matiang\u2019i to issue guidelines to ensure that the vetting of Nubians applying for IDs is done in a transparent and non-discriminatory manner.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwakilishi.com\/article\/immigration-news\/2021-12-10\/mps-want-nubians-recognized-as-a-tribe-in-kenya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.mwakilishi.com\/article\/immigration-news\/2021-12-10\/mps-want-nubians-recognized-as-a-tribe-in-kenya<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By John Wanjohi The National Assembly\u2019s Administration and National Security Committee has endorsed a petition seeking to have the Nubian community recognized as a tribe in Kenya. The committee directed Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang\u2019i to commence the process of recognizing Nubians as a tribe within three months. Although the government recognizes members of the [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-676","item-theme-documents-d-identite-et-passeports","item-theme-discrimination-fr","item-theme-enregistrement-des-naissances","item-theme-ethnique-raciale-religieuse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36735","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=36735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36736,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36735\/revisions\/36736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}