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Nairobi, Dec. 13, 2020 Kenya is to grant citizenship to 1,600 stateless people from the Shona community who came to Kenya as missionaries.
President Uhuru Kenyatta announced the development for the stateless citizens, many of whom were born and raised in Kenya but could not be registered.
Nosizi Dube, who is among the beneficiaries of the citizenship issued on Saturday during ceremonies to mark Kenya’s 57th anniversary of independence from British colonial rule, said she is relieved her life-long struggle is over.
She said, as a stateless descendant of a Zimbabwean community in Kenya, she and her family were unable to fit into the society without a state to call her own.