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…
Egyptian law allows citizens to be granted permission to naturalize a foreign nationality while retaining their Egyptian nationality and that makes them exempt from military service. Masry Al-Youm answers how the Egyptian expatriates obtain the approval of the Egyptian authorities…
« Le projet de décret portant création, attributions, organisation et fonctionnement du comité technique institutionnel d’éradication de l’apatridie au Congo répond au souci de lutter contre la prolifération des cas d’apatridie », peut-on lire dans le compte rendu du Conseil de ministres du 3…
by CLAUSE MASIKA Data Rights and their Kenyan partner organisations the Kenya Human Rights Commission and the Nubian Rights Forum (NRF) are suing IDEMIA, one of the leading biometric tech companies in the world, before the Paris judicial tribunal. The…
SPOUSAL and relative’s visas should be done away with because the system is being “abused by foreign nationals” to settle in SA, the ANC has said in an additional discussion document distributed to delegates at the policy conference on Friday…
Sango Coin, which is the official cryptocurrency for the Central African Republic, is now available for purchase on the Sango Investment Platform. This comes few weeks after the Investment Platform let investors deposit a basket of cryptocurrencies for investment, including…
The law, which ends a 1973 ban on dual nationality, is partly due to extensive campaigning by Liberians in the diaspora. By Dounard Bondo Liberia’s president has signed into law a bill that amends the country’s alien and nationality law. The…
Liberia has allowed dual citizenship, reversing a longtime ban viewed by some as hypocritical as many elites secretly held US citizenship. The bill, signed into law by President George Weah Friday and confirmed Sunday by AFP, had passed both the…
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…
AT 45, Philimon Mashava has never had a bank account or a phone in his name. He has never had a birth certificate and, without documents, Mashava’s stateless existence has meant him missing out on school and countless job opportunities,…
By Zeinab Mohammed Salih A demand by Sudan’s Hausa community to be recognised as traditional custodians of some land in Blue Nile state has erupted into deadly violence. Clashes broke out last weekend with members of another ethnic group that…
Editorial Recently, as reported in a local daily, Fulas in Liberia are seeking recognition through Legislation to be recognized as one of the original ethnic groups of Liberia. And the reason(s) underlying this appeal for recognition as one of the…