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.
Le gouvernement comorien veut empêcher les binationaux, notamment les citoyens qui sont également français, de se présenter à l’élection présidentielle de 2024, selon un projet de loi actuellement examiné au Parlement dont l’AFP a obtenu copie. “Si un candidat est […]
By Paul Kurgat Kenya Kwanza allies want outgoing Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i to be compelled to pay the exiled lawyer, Miguna Miguna, Ksh7 million as ordered by the court. Lawyer Nelson Havi led the clamour, arguing that the High […]
By Fred Kagonye | Sep 20, 2022 Lawyer Dr Miguna Miguna has taken to Twitter to reveal that he has received a new passport, five years since he was ‘deported’ from Kenya to Canada. In a tweet, Miguna stated that […]
Says ALCOD’s Eminent Chairman Emmanuel S. Wettee The Eminent Chairman of the All-Liberian Conference on Dual Citizenship (ALCOD), Eminent Emmanuel S. Wettee, has come up to provide clarity on the new Dual Citizenship Law, saying it does not make natural-born […]
By MAUREEN NJERI The Shona will participate in their first ever General Election n Kenya nearly six decades after the community migrated from Zimbabwe. Speaking to BBC Africa, the community secretary general Oliver Muregerera was excited to finally exercise his civil […]
By Cholo Brooks At long last, Liberia, Africa’s oldest Republic has finally allowed any person who is a negro or of negro descent, born in Liberia and a person born outside of the country, “whose father and mother were either […]
By Munlini Mulera The imposition of the Tibuhaburwa Dynasty is now full steam ahead. General Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa’s contempt for the electoral regulations and military codes of the land will not be the last laws that he will set aside […]
By Stephen Kwaku Asare, Professor Article 94(2)(a) provides that a person is not qualified to be a member of Parliament if he owes allegiance to a country other than Ghana. This article did not and could not have aimed at […]
By Yankuba Jallow One Haddy Jallow of Banjul has asked the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to investigate the allegation surrounding the National Assembly member for Banjul South, Fatoumata Njai, regarding her having dual-nationality. Fatoumata Njai is also known as Touma […]
By Ayang Macdonald Zambia’s parliament has been told that work to put in place a new biometric ID system dubbed the Integrated National Registration Information System (INRIS) has started, with the biometrics of at least 15,000 Zambians already captured for […]
The Juba-born politician and activist is fighting for her position in parliament, her citizenship and her life. By Zeinab Mohammed Salih On December 22, 2021, Animu Athiei was leaving a café at the airport road of the South Sudanese capital […]
Though the Federal High Court merely struck out the suit challenging the citizenship of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on technical grounds, analysts argue that facts before the court suggest that the suit was just an academic exercise, Alex Enumah […]