By Ayang Macdonald Members of a ‘stateless’ community in Kenya known as the Shona have received digital ID cards from the Kenyan government, ending approximately five decades of their statelessness. Kenyan outlet The Star, in a feature report, chronicles the […]
Momoh, Solomon Oseghale (2021) Utrecht University Repository (Dissertation) Supervisor(s): Ryngaert, C.M.J.; Eijken, H. van Abstract At least 10 million people are stateless worldwide, and are therefore without any form of legal recognition by any state. Statelessness result in denial of access […]
Nigeria scales up birth registration of children at risk of statelessness, living in camps for internally displaced people. By Gabriel Adeyemo in Abuja, Nigeria Over the past seven years, Liyatu Ayuba, 50, a traditional birth attendant, has helped deliver over […]
In a historic move expected to end racial profiling, Government yesterday abolished the “00” code used to identify persons of mixed race, Caucasians and Asians on national identity cards. Presenting a ministerial statement in the National Assembly yesterday, Home Affairs […]
By Willie N. Tokpah MONROVIA – The Supreme Court has nullified the Liberia National Bar Association (LNBA) Suspension of former Chairman of the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission, Cllr. A. Ndubudsi Nwabudike and has ordered the Ministry of Justice to take seize […]
BY KETRAH JJEMBA, KAMPALA A RIFT between Banyarwanda, a community of Rwandan origin living in Uganda and the immigration offices at the Ministry of internal Affairs over passport issuance has deepened. Their war has now reached High Court in Kampala […]
By Stephen Phiri Jolidee Matongo, a son of a Zimbabwean immigrant, “was elected (mayor of Johannesburg) after receiving more than 260 council votes on Tuesday [10 August 2021] and remained uncontested, a rare occurrence in the city”, according to Sowetan […]
The proposed Congolité law could inflame violence in a country devastated by more than two decades of conflict. by David Zounmenou Early in July, Noel Tshiani, a 2018 presidential candidate with the support of some Members of Parliament, proposed amending […]
By Kenneth Matimaire Children born to victims of Gukurahundi massacres have been deprived of their right to access birth registration leading to dire human rights violations associated with statelessness, a new study has shown. The findings featured in a study […]
by AKELLO ODENYO and CHRISTINE NTINYARI “We were alive and dead at the same time, like ghosts, because we had no identity.” Those were the words of Zephaniah Muungani, a member of the Shona community living in Kenya. “Generation after […]
Two American siblings who survived a well documented massacre of Black people in the US city of Tulsa in Oklahoma have rounded up a visit to Ghana by accepting to be citizens of Ghana. 107-year-old Viola Fletcher and her brother, […]
Un Sahraoui qui avait été inscrit pendant 20 ans comme ressortissant du “Sahara occidental” à Fribourg est désormais désigné comme “sans nationalité” dans le Système d’information central sur la migration (SYMIC). Pour le Tribunal fédéral, ce changement de pratique est […]