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Decretos presidenciales de otorgamiento de la nacionalidad ecuatoguineana

September 13, 2021 8:43 am Published by Comments Off on Decretos presidenciales de otorgamiento de la nacionalidad ecuatoguineana

-“Decreto Núm. 108/2.021, de fecha 13 de septiembre, por el que se otorga al súbdito serbio, Don BOSCO MARKOVIC, la nacionalidad ecuatoguineana. Visto el expediente de solicitud de Nacionalidad Ecuatoguineana, tramitado por el Ministerio de Justicia, Culto e Instituciones Penitenciarias, […]


Libya: Stateless Tuareg demand rights and inclusion ahead of elections

September 11, 2021 5:39 pm Published by Comments Off on Libya: Stateless Tuareg demand rights and inclusion ahead of elections

Communities are taking action as they challenge decades of discrimination at the hands of national and local authorities By Thomas McGee As Libya’s much-anticipated 24 December general elections edge closer, the last month has seen an intensification of frustration and […]


Zimbabwe: IDs are a basic right

September 10, 2021 6:06 pm Published by Comments Off on Zimbabwe: IDs are a basic right

REPORTS yesterday said the Registrar-General’s office would from Monday resume issuing birth certificates, passports and identity documents (IDs) after months of closure due to COVID-19 lockdowns. The exercise, we are told, would target the marginalised San community in Tsholotsho and […]


RDC: Plan d’action national de lutte contre l’apatridie 2021-2030

September 7, 2021 6:18 pm Published by Comments Off on RDC: Plan d’action national de lutte contre l’apatridie 2021-2030

Résumé du plan d’action national de lutte contre l’apatridie En vertu du droit international, les États définissent les règles d’attribution, d’acquisition, de changement et de retrait de la nationalité. En même temps, la liberté des États en matière de nationalité […]


Kenya: The Pain of the Nubian Community

September 7, 2021 1:51 pm Published by Comments Off on Kenya: The Pain of the Nubian Community

By Victor Raballa & Angeline Ochieng Over the years, different groups of Kenyans have sued the British government for one reason or another. There were maimed and bereaved families in Samburu that sued after unexploded ordnances were left behind by […]


Banyarwanda tribe protected under the Uganda Constitution, says Minister Baryomunsi

September 5, 2021 11:43 am Published by Comments Off on Banyarwanda tribe protected under the Uganda Constitution, says Minister Baryomunsi

The minister was reacting to a question from a journalist at Uganda Media Center on Saturday about complaints from the community that they are treated differently because of their ethnicity. .. ICT and National Guidance minister, Dr Chris Baryomunsi, says […]


Zimbabwe: Statelessness rife among San community members

September 4, 2021 6:32 pm Published by Comments Off on Zimbabwe: Statelessness rife among San community members

By Nqobile Tshili National identity documents such as a birth certificate and a national identity card confirm an individual’s citizenship. People who do not have such documents are considered stateless. According to international law, a stateless person is someone who […]


Long-awaited nationality for Asian stateless in Kenya

September 2, 2021 4:44 pm Published by Comments Off on Long-awaited nationality for Asian stateless in Kenya

4 decades ago, this issue began by a change in law, split families, and changed a whole generation of people. On the wayside got left behind roughly 4 to 5 dozen individuals. Extremely marginalized. On Thursday, 02 September 2021, a […]


Why is joining the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness as important today as ever in Southern Africa?

September 2, 2021 3:56 pm Published by Comments Off on Why is joining the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness as important today as ever in Southern Africa?

By Valentin Tapsoba, UNHCR Director for Southern Africa Mpho, 33, has lived in South Africa her entire life, yet she is stateless; she has no nationality. When she was found abandoned as a young child, the identity of her parents […]


Stateless Asians awarded Kenyan citizenship certificates

September 2, 2021 9:59 am Published by Comments Off on Stateless Asians awarded Kenyan citizenship certificates

by TRACY MUTINDA Members of the Stateless Asians of Kenya Community were awarded Kenyan citizenship certificates on Thursday. Fify-two Asians went home with their certificates as the government vowed to end statelessness. In attendance during the award ceremony were Director […]


State grants 52 stateless Asians Kenyan citizenship

September 2, 2021 9:56 am Published by Comments Off on State grants 52 stateless Asians Kenyan citizenship

by GORDON OSEN AND FAITH CHEBET Some 52 stateless Asians living in the country without legal status can now live freely after the government granted them Kenyan citizenship on Thursday. They are descendants or children of pioneer Asians who came […]


Rwanda passes new nationality law

September 1, 2021 6:50 pm Published by Comments Off on Rwanda passes new nationality law

On 16 July, the Organic Law governing Rwandan nationality was passed outlining procedures and requirements for acquisition and application of Rwandan nationality. The new Organic law No.002/2021 replaces the 2008 Nationality Code and provides for more restrictive rules. It emphasises […]