{"id":37747,"date":"2023-02-22T19:14:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T19:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=37747"},"modified":"2023-02-23T19:16:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T19:16:53","slug":"50000-people-undocumented-in-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/50000-people-undocumented-in-namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"50,000 People Undocumented in Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Aletta Shikololo<\/p>\n<p>Ongwediva \u2014 For his entire life, Nghidipo Rafael has had to prove that he indeed exists.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old from Outaukondjele village in the Ohangwena region was born from Namibian parents, yet he is stateless. This fact has made him live a life of hardship and poverty.<\/p>\n<p>A stateless person is someone who is not considered a national of any state. Government estimates that there are 50 000 stateless persons in Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0I have been living in a dilemma my whole life. My existence is absolutely unknown,\u00a0\u00bb he lamented.<\/p>\n<p>To Nghidipo, statelessness is his inheritance.<\/p>\n<p>His maternal grandparents didn&rsquo;t have a nationality, something which was then inherited by his mother, and subsequently flowed over to him and his three siblings.<\/p>\n<p>This issue is likely to be passed on to his children, if he decides to have any.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202302220239.html\">https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202302220239.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Aletta Shikololo Ongwediva \u2014 For his entire life, Nghidipo Rafael has had to prove that he indeed exists. The 29-year-old from Outaukondjele village in the Ohangwena region was born from Namibian parents, yet he is stateless. This fact has made him live a life of hardship and poverty. A stateless person is someone who [&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-37747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-namibie","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-691","item-theme-apatridie","item-theme-documents-d-identite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37747","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=37747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37748,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37747\/revisions\/37748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}