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Monrovia \u2014 Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has called on the Liberian Legislature to spearhead a new wave of constitutional reforms, urging lawmakers to amend what she described as a “racist provision” in the Constitution that restricts citizenship to persons of Negro descent.<\/p>\n
Delivering what observers described as a historic address to the House of Representatives, Sirleaf specifically referenced Article 27(b) of the 1986 Constitution, which states that “only persons who are negroes, or…<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Monrovia \u2014 Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has called on the Liberian Legislature to spearhead a new wave of constitutional reforms, urging lawmakers to amend what she described as a “racist provision” in the Constitution that restricts citizenship to persons of Negro descent. Delivering what observers described as a historic address to the House of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[7325,258,256,6137,6826,9729,12175,13203,7358,9722,4712,1107,257,53852,6099,5100,6912,254,6810],"class_list":["post-226400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-address","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-citizenship","tag-constitutional","tag-expresident","tag-historic","tag-lead","tag-legislature","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-nonnegroes","tag-reform","tag-rights","tag-sirleaf","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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