{"id":6605,"date":"2016-01-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/birthplace-wars-and-conspiracy-theories-five-ways-in-which-us-presidential-race-is-like-an-african-election\/?lang=fr"},"modified":"2018-05-25T06:32:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:32:32","slug":"birthplace-wars-and-conspiracy-theories-five-ways-in-which-us-presidential-race-is-like-an-african-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/birthplace-wars-and-conspiracy-theories-five-ways-in-which-us-presidential-race-is-like-an-african-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthplace wars and conspiracy theories: Five ways in which US presidential race is like an African election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The election year begun in earnest in the US, with campaigns heating up and incumbent Barack Obama settled into his final twelve months as president. Obama gave is final State of the Nation address last week.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, during his visit to Africa that brought him to Kenya \u2013 the land of his father\u2019s birth \u2013 and Ethiopia, Obama took a dig at African presidents who cling to power, saying that he would want to run for a third term, and if he did, he would \u201cprobably win\u201d, but the US constitution \u201cdoes not allow\u201d him to.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/mgafrica.com\/article\/2016-01-13-five-ways-in-which-the-us-presidential-election-is-like-an-african-election\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The election year begun in earnest in the US, with campaigns heating up and incumbent Barack Obama settled into his final twelve months as president. Obama gave is final State of the Nation address last week. Last year, during his visit to Africa that brought him to Kenya \u2013 the land of his father\u2019s birth [&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-6605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-afrique-australe","region-afrique-de-l-est","region-afrique-de-l-ouest","region-cote-divoire-fr","region-ouganda","region-zambie","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-395","item-theme-nationalite-des-politiciens","item-theme-nationalite-et-elections"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605","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=6605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6625,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605\/revisions\/6625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}