{"id":39820,"date":"2023-12-20T10:16:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T10:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=39820"},"modified":"2023-12-21T10:20:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T10:20:12","slug":"tanzania-act-wazalendo-pushing-for-dual-citizenship-not-special-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/tanzania-act-wazalendo-pushing-for-dual-citizenship-not-special-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania: ACT Wazalendo pushing for dual citizenship, not \u2018special status\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Owere<\/p>\n<p>Dar es Salaam. The recent announcement by Foreign Affairs Minister January Makamba about granting \u00ab\u00a0special status\u00a0\u00bb to the Tanzanian diaspora has drawn mixed reactions, with the opposition ACT Wazalendo party voicing strong reservations.<\/p>\n<p>While acknowledging the Minister&rsquo;s initiative, ACT Wazalendo argues that it amounts to mere \u2018lipstick\u2019 and falls short of the true recognition deserved by Tanzanians living abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0For ACT Wazalendo, special status is just a cosmetic measure,\u00a0\u00bb declared Ms Nasra Nassor Omar, the party&rsquo;s Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0What our fellow citizens scattered across the globe deserve is the full embrace of dual citizenship, not a halfway house with limited rights and privileges.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecitizen.co.tz\/tanzania\/news\/act-wazalendo-pushing-for-dual-citizenship-not-special-status--4470344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.thecitizen.co.tz\/tanzania\/news\/act-wazalendo-pushing-for-dual-citizenship-not-special-status&#8211;4470344<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Paul Owere Dar es Salaam. The recent announcement by Foreign Affairs Minister January Makamba about granting \u00ab\u00a0special status\u00a0\u00bb to the Tanzanian diaspora has drawn mixed reactions, with the opposition ACT Wazalendo party voicing strong reservations. While acknowledging the Minister&rsquo;s initiative, ACT Wazalendo argues that it amounts to mere \u2018lipstick\u2019 and falls short 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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-tanzanie","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-691","item-theme-double-nationalite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39820","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=39820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39821,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39820\/revisions\/39821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}