It is often at election time when questions around nationality come to the fore – when the meaning of citizenship is challenged in its fullest sense of the right to participate in public affairs of a country. There are many well-known cases of politicians whose right to nationality in the country where they wish to stand for office has been brought into question. Some of these have been litigated up to the level of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, but less-well known cases arise with almost every election. Elections also see regular assertions that certain groups of potential voters have been registered to vote even though they are not citizens.
Election Watches 5/2017 and 6/2017 outlined the new Electoral (Voter Registration) Regulations, 2017 [SI 85/2017]. The full text of the SI is available on the Veritas website [link]. The regulations, along with related provisions of the Electoral Act, lay down…
By Alex Malanga Dar es Salaam. Immigration officers from Kinondoni District on Monday interrogated Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition (THRDC) national coordinator, Mr Onesmo Ole Ngurumwa, for one hour on his nationality. The immigration officers, according to Mr Ole Ngurumwa,…
Collen Murahwa Herald Reporter The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has clarified the confusion regarding the voting rights of the socalled “aliens”, saying they were eligible to register as voters.ZEC chief elections officer Ms Constance Chigwamba said in a statement that…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said persons who, before the promulgation of the 2013 Constitution were issued with identity documents describing them as ‘‘aliens’’, must forthwith proceed to the offices of the Registrar General to have their…
Zimbabweans are so exhausted with the year long struggle to get money, their own money out of the banks, that almost everything else seems of little consequence. How can you worry about elections when you have to spend half of…
It has come to the attention of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) that there may be some confusion regarding the rights of certain Zimbabwean citizens born in Zimbabwe and where one or both of their parents were not citizens of…
A l’approche de la présidentielle d’octobre 2017 au Liberia, des voix anonymes s’élèvent à Monrovia, la capitale du pays, pour remettre en cause la nationalité libérienne du candidat George Weah, qui serait aussi un américain. En rapport avec ces suspicions,…
By Maxwell Sibanda HARARE – Proposition that persons should be allowed to vote anywhere in the country upon production of their national identity documentation cards (IDs) for the 2018 general election is a recipe for electoral chaos, analysts have said.…
The National Civil registration Authority (NCRA), National Electoral Commission (NEC) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, on Tuesday, paid a visit to the warehouse that hosts the national biometric registrations kits. The kits, according to the Director General of the…
British Somali MPs have the highest number of lawmakers in the Somali Parliament with 29 MPs followed by Somali Americans at 22 and Kenyan Somalis at 10, a report by Wakiil.org has indicated. The number of Somali MPs with dual…