Les procureurs des Comores ont requis jeudi une peine de prison à vie contre l’ancien président Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, jugé par contumace pour haute trahison. « Il a trahi la mission qui lui a été confiée par les Comoriens », a martelé […]
Le Réseau d’Afrique australe pour la nationalité (SANN), en partenariat avec le HCR, publie un bulletin trimestriel sur l’apatridie en Afrique australe. Le bulletin présente des mises à jour d’organisations et d’institutions œuvrant à éradiquer l’apatridie dans la région et […]
LUSAKA, (CAJ News) – ZAMBIAN authorities have been urged to consider all legal options possible to regularise the status of refugees, including children born there. Gillian Triggs, United Nations Refugee Agency’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, recommended that the government […]
By Masoka Dube Tebogo Khoza from Thabazimbi in Limpopo lives a life of squalor as the Department of Home Affairs refuses to issue him with documentation even though he has proof that he was born in South Africa. Khoza, 25, […]
By Babalo Ndenze CAPE TOWN – Members of Parliament (MPs) said they’re worried about the high cost of DNA tests that prevent migrants from registering the birth of their children. Lawyers for Human Rights told the Home Affairs portfolio committee this […]
The Lawyers for Human Rights briefed Parliament’s home affairs committee on statelessness and other challenges faced by migrants Babalo Ndenze CAPE TOWN – Lawyers for Human Rights said on Tuesday the Department of Home Affairs was “structurally xenophobic” because its […]
By Lewis S. Teh The Government of Liberia through the Liberia Refugee Repatriation and Resettlement Commission (LRRRC) has alarmed that a significant number of Liberians are without birth certificates. At an official program in observance of the World Day Against […]
HARARE, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) — Friendly investors will be granted Zimbabwean citizenship as part of the government’s efforts to lure investment, a cabinet minister has said. « President Emmerson Mnangagwa is once again going to make history by making Zimbabwe one […]
by Tunde Oguntola National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCRFMI) and other stakeholders have commenced the review of the draft Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Statelessness Status Determination (SSD). The federal commissioner of NCFRMI, Hajiya Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, […]
Refugees returning to remote areas of South Sudan often struggle to get vital nationality documents. So UNHCR is taking the registration process to them. Farmer Juma Alzen Sebil ran for his life when gunmen attacked his hometown in 2016, shooting […]
By Zelda Venter Pretoria – A young man left in legal limbo after his parents never registered his birth has appealed to the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, for help. The Department of Home Affairs had simply ignored his plight over […]
Non-citizen Children of Libyan Women Still Blocked From Citizenship By Hanan M Salah On October 19, the Council of Ministers of the Libyan Government of National Unity (GNU) issued a new Decree stating that non-citizen children of Libyan women would be granted “all rights […]