January 17, 2022 7:38 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
INTRODUCTION Jo Shaw, University of Edinburgh This introduction briefly presents our symposium on the recently published monograph by Robtel Neajai Pailey entitled Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia (Cambridge University Press, […]
January 17, 2022 3:45 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
SABC Cutting Edge – 20 minute feature on children excluded from school for lack of birth registration (including those with South African parents). Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjD7g_D41L0
January 13, 2022 12:13 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Il a été interrogé par Top Fm sur les procédures concernant un bébé né sur le sol mauricien ou alors dans un avion ou sur un bateau. Mario Ayelou explique que le principe de droit du sol n’existe pas à […]
January 12, 2022 6:23 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Abudul Mahajubu, Researcher, Makerere University It’s been well over a century since the Nubian people arrived in Uganda from what was then Sudan, as the armed enforcers of the British colonial government. Over time, the new arrivals assimilated individuals […]
January 12, 2022 4:16 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
The Nigerian Government has deactivated biometric identification of human rights activist and former Presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore. The documents deactivated include the activist’s national identity card, permanent voter card, international passport and driver license. As a result of this, Sowore […]
January 12, 2022 3:26 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Several dual-national prisoners of conscience have had to give up their Egyptian nationality in order to leave the country Egyptian-Palestinian Ramy Shaath’s release from prison after 900 days came as a huge relief to the rights activist and his family […]
January 12, 2022 3:22 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Fazilla Tembo The Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services has disclosed that it will start receiving and processing applications for dual citizenship from this month, January 2022. The department’s National Public Relations Officer, Wellington Chiponde, revealed on Tuesday that […]
January 12, 2022 11:09 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
« Le ministère des Affaires sociales et des Droits de la femme, en partenariat avec le Système des Nations Unies, notamment le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l’Enfance (UNICEF), organise une campagne d’identification des personnes sans acte de naissance dans la […]
January 10, 2022 11:44 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Le gouvernement togolais a, annoncé que la délivrance des actes de naissances serait dès le début Janvier 2022, rendue gratuite pour toute la population. Si cette mesure venait à voir le jour, qu’en seraient-ils alors de ces frais que l’Etat […]
January 8, 2022 9:29 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
CAIRO, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Egyptian authorities have freed Egyptian-Palestinian rights activist Ramy Shaath from more than 900 days of detention after forcing him to renounce his Egyptian nationality, his family said in a statement on Saturday. The statement said […]
January 7, 2022 9:35 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
IT is hereby notified that the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage has, in terms of section 22 of the Citizenship of Zimbabwe Act [Chapter 4:01], made the following regulations:— 1. These regulations may be cited as the Citizenship […]
January 7, 2022 9:32 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
BY MIRIAM MANGWAYA GOVERNMENT has scrapped the US$20 electronic passport (e-passport) application fee following a public outcry over its controversial decision to award CBZ Bank the monopoly to process the application fees. Government last year gazetted Statutory Instrument (SI) 273 […]
