{"id":7686,"date":"2005-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/cote-divoire-whats-in-a-name-a-fight-for-identity\/?lang=fr"},"modified":"2016-08-07T08:15:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T08:15:09","slug":"cote-divoire-whats-in-a-name-a-fight-for-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/cote-divoire-whats-in-a-name-a-fight-for-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&rsquo;Ivoire: What\u2019s in a name: A fight for identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOUAKE, 1 November 2005 (IRIN) &#8211; \u00ab\u00a0We needed a war because we needed our identity cards,\u00a0\u00bb explained rebel fighter Adama Traore, one of thousands of rebels who control the northern half of Cote d&rsquo;Ivoire. \u00ab\u00a0Without an identity card you are nothing in this country.\u00a0\u00bb The 23-year-old used to work with a local aid agency improving healthcare but he picked up a Kalashnikov when the war started three years ago to take up another more important service, he says &#8212; the fight for equal rights for all Ivorians. \u00ab\u00a0We are badly treated. Plenty of northerners have been killed, beaten or given a hard time for nothing,\u00a0\u00bb he told IRIN near the rebel stronghold of Bouake, as he took a break from manning a checkpoint on the main road that runs south into government-controlled territory.<\/p>\n<p>Read further on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irinnews.org\/feature\/2005\/11\/01\/whats-name-fight-identity\">IRIN website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOUAKE, 1 November 2005 (IRIN) &#8211; \u00ab\u00a0We needed a war because we needed our identity cards,\u00a0\u00bb explained rebel fighter Adama Traore, one of thousands of rebels who control the northern half of Cote d&rsquo;Ivoire. \u00ab\u00a0Without an identity card you are nothing in this country.\u00a0\u00bb The 23-year-old used to work with a local aid agency improving [&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-7686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-afrique-de-l-ouest","region-cote-divoire-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-483","item-theme-documents-d-identite-et-passeports","item-theme-inscription-aux-listes-electorales","item-theme-nationalite-et-elections","item-theme-documents-d-identite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686","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=7686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8763,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions\/8763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}