The most famous cases in which the right of a person to stand for public office has been questioned are those of Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia and Alassane Ouattara of Côte d’Ivoire. The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights found both states in violation of their obligations under the Charter; as they also did in the less well known but even more egregious case of John Modise of Botswana. But many cases do not reach the regional mechanisms and are challenged in national courts.
MONROVIA – Her US citizenship has been an issue of discussion since she was announced Liberia’s Ambassador-designate to the United States and later the United Kingdom. Report by Henry Karmo, henry.karmo@frontpageafricaonline.com Reports say her nomination as Liberia’s ambassador to the US was…
By Feyi Fawehinmi I was never a fan of the now former Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun. I’m also not a fan of the NYSC programme – as I wrote here in December 2016, the programme is an immoral and unfair…
La Cour constitutionnelle de la RDC a validé lundi la candidature de l’ancien Premier ministre Samy Badibanga à la présidentielle. Mais la polémique autour du recouvrement de sa nationalité congolaise est loin de s’estomper. Samy Badibanga a finalement été repêché.…
Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila’s siblings are said to hold Tanzanian nationality while seeking electoral positions, circumstances the ruling party is using to eliminate some opponents ahead of the December 23 general elections. According to La Libre Afrique,…
Hubert Leclercq Les élections présidentielle, législatives et provinciales en République démocratique du Congo sont toujours annoncées pour le 23 décembre prochain. Avec qui sur la grille de départ ? Pas de réponse définitive, pour l’instant, à cette question. Pour la…
A Supreme Court justice nominee, Nene Abayaateye Ofoe Amegatcher, has said that the 1992 Constitution must be amended to allow Ghanaians with dual citizenship to take up ministerial or other positions of trust to contribute their quota to the development…
Dual citizenship which is forbidden by law is generating debates across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Minister of Justice, Alexis Thambwe Mwamba, earlier in the week said a list of Congolese persons holding second nationality had been transferred to…
Kenyan opposition politician, Miguna Miguna, has declared that, in two weeks time, he will make a third attempt to return to the East African nation. Miguna, who officiated the symbolic inauguration of opposition leader Raila Odinga as the people’s president…
La question de la double nationalité refait surface, à moins de six mois de la tenue des scrutins attendus en décembre. Les réseaux sociaux, comme à l’accoutumée, sont entrés dans la danse en s’invitant dans cette problématique via une liste…
Quand le débat autour d’un seul personnage qui ne fait plus l’unanimité dure à jamais sans feedback, le mieux c’est de tourner la page. Malheureusement, le dossier Katumbi Chapwe sur sa nationalité «italienne» continue de défrayer la chronique, alors que…