The United Nations General Assembly has entrusted UNHCR with a global mandate to protect stateless persons, and to prevent and reduce statelessness1. This mandate includes the UNHCR’s responsibility for providing legal advice on the two international Conventions addressing statelessness, namely […]
Repeals and replaces the 1962 nationality code (amended 1995). Titre V: De La Nationalité. Article 224: Est malien, qu’il soit né au Mali ou à l’étranger: – l’enfant légitime né de père et de mère maliens; – l’enfant légitime né […]
General Procedures for all Nationality and Naturalization Certificates: Inquiry and Standard of Proof (22) The Issuing Authority inquires into the facts relating to an application. (23) The responsibility to adduce sufficient evidence to support the application remains primarily with the […]
By Julia Harrington Reddy Slavery in Mauritania is not what most people envision when they hear the word. There are no slave markets; people are not bought and sold (although they may be lent out or rented). Most slaves are […]
On Thursday, the minister of Labour and Home Affairs Edwin Batshu said the Department of Immigration and Citizenship has, this year, approved 567 applications from people wishing to resume their Botswana citizenship. By GOTHATAONE MOENG He said in 2010, the […]
By Bronwen Manby On July 9, 2011, the Republic of South Sudan became Africa’s newest independent state. Among the many issues that were supposed to have been resolved before the formal secession of the new state—in fact, before the January […]
Judgment in the case of Adamu Garba and 20 Ors v Federal Attorney General of Nigeria and 13 Ors was delivered on December 16, 2011 by Hon. Justice Mohammed Lawal Shuaibu of the Federal High Court in Kaduna. In his […]
Mervat Ayoub It should come as no surprise that, with the Camp David Peace Accord in effect, Egyptians go to Israel for business or pleasure. Once there, young men may marry Israeli women, have children, and more often than not […]
In Nairobi’s Kibera slums live thousands of marginalised Kenyans whose ancestors were brought to Kenya from Sudan in the early 1890s to serve as soldiers in the British Army. Although they gave their all to the British empire under the […]
A compilation and analysis of pledges submitted during the UNHCR ministerial meeting to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness […]
Télécharger: DRC Decret ONIP 2011
Beth Elise Whitaker Volume: 45 issue: 4, 2011, pp.755-783 Abstract In recent decades, more countries have started to recognize dual citizenship. Although overlooked in the literature, Africa is part of this trend with more than half of its governments now […]