Kenya grants citizenship to Pemba community, ending century of statelessness ...Middle East

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NAIROBI: Kenyan President William Ruto awarded citizenship late Friday to members of the Pemba community who have been stateless for nearly a century, reported Anadolu.The Pemba people believed to have migrated from the Zanzibar archipelago before Kenya gained independence, had lived without a recognised nationality, facing untold hardships and marginalisation due to their statelessness.Ruto declared that the time had come to rectify the historical injustice.“This, effectively, ends the Pemba community’s statelessness and marginalisation that has lasted for close to 100 years,” he said.Ruto granted citizenship to members of the Pemba community – numbering 8,000 -- according to estimates by t

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