{"id":6964,"date":"2014-11-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/identity-politics-at-work-in-gabon\/?lang=fr"},"modified":"2018-05-25T07:13:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T07:13:31","slug":"identity-politics-at-work-in-gabon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/identity-politics-at-work-in-gabon\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity politics at work in Gabon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Liesl Louw-Vaudran, ISS Consultant<\/p>\n<p>The nationality and parentage of heads of state is a sensitive issue all over the world, and especially in Africa. For years, those in power in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, for example, maintained that President Alassane Ouattara wasn\u2019t Ivorian, but actually from Burkina Faso and therefore couldn\u2019t participate in presidential elections. Acting Zambian President, Guy Scott, is also prevented by the Constitution from being a candidate in next year\u2019s elections because his parents are from Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, clashes broke out in Libreville, Gabon, between the police and protesters during a march against President Ali Bongo Ondimba, son of late president Omar Bongo Ondimba.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issafrica.org\/iss-today\/identity-politics-at-work-in-gabon\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Liesl Louw-Vaudran, ISS Consultant The nationality and parentage of heads of state is a sensitive issue all over the world, and especially in Africa. For years, those in power in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, for example, maintained that President Alassane Ouattara wasn\u2019t Ivorian, but actually from Burkina Faso and therefore couldn\u2019t participate in presidential elections. Acting [&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-6964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-afrique-centrale","region-gabon-fr","type-messages-blog","item-year-397","item-theme-nationalite-des-politiciens","item-theme-nationalite-et-elections"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964","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=6964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6969,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions\/6969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}