By Rawan Kara Even though she has lived in a displacement camp for the past five years with little food and water, 68-year-old Apuk Bak remains selfless. She is a mother, a grandmother and a women’s leader in the South…
By Mercy Chelangat & Mercy Simiyu This is after 1,649 members of the community, who had been stateless, were presented with citizenship certificates. Speaking during the ceremony on Wednesday, Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i said all stateless people who are…
The ethnic Shona community in Kenya, descendents from people who emigrated in the 1930s, and then in the 1960s as missionaries, will soon finally get certificates of citizenship following the decision at the end of last year by the Kenyan…
by CYRUS OMBATI Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi will Wednesday grant a certificate of Citizenship to the Shona Community. This follows the move by Kenya to recognize the community as part of Kenyans. The Shona arrived in Kenya in 1959.…
The attorney-general says the suit threatens the right of not just Mr Atiku to contest the office of the Nigerian President “but that of the citizens of12 out of the 21 Local Government Areas in Adamawa State. The Adamawa government,…
Les bénéficiaires de cette opération qui en est à sa deuxième étape après Douala ont reçu des actes de naissances établis avec la contribution de Cimencam ce 15 juillet à Figuil. La société Cimencam tient ses promesses. L’entreprise leader des…
(26 July, 2021) – The Federal Government has approved the extension of the deadline for NIN-SIM data verification to 31st of October, 2021. The extension was as a result of the virtual meeting chaired by the Honourable Minister of Communications…
By Collins Omulo Nairobi Street Families Consortium chairperson Peter Ndiboe said they should be considered for the universal health care being rolled out by the government as all lives matter and none should be lost because of discrimination. He pointed…
GENEVA (22 July 2021) — The UN Human Rights Committee has found that Mauritius’ 2013 National Identity Card Act violates its citizens’ privacy rights, as there are no sufficient guarantees that the fingerprints and other biometric data stored on the…
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, applauds Togo’s accession to the two UN Conventions on Statelessness. Togo has now become the latest country to join the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction…