Author Archives for Bronwen Manby

Egyptian or free: Political prisoners forced to renounce citizenship to be released

January 12, 2022 3:26 pm Published by Comments Off on Egyptian or free: Political prisoners forced to renounce citizenship to be released

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 […]


Malawi: Immigration Starts Dual Citizenship Processes This Month

January 12, 2022 3:22 pm Published by Comments Off on Malawi: Immigration Starts Dual Citizenship Processes This Month

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 […]


Gabon : Ouverture ce mercredi d’une campagne d’identification des personnes sans acte de naissance dans la province de l’Estuaire

January 12, 2022 11:09 am Published by Comments Off on Gabon : Ouverture ce mercredi d’une campagne d’identification des personnes sans acte de naissance dans la province de l’Estuaire

« 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 […]


Togo: La gratuite des actes de naissance va coûter près de 300 millions à l’Etat

January 10, 2022 11:44 am Published by Comments Off on Togo: La gratuite des actes de naissance va coûter près de 300 millions à l’Etat

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 […]


Egypt frees activist Ramy Shaath after he renounces nationality, family says

January 8, 2022 9:29 am Published by Comments Off on Egypt frees activist Ramy Shaath after he renounces nationality, family says

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 […]


Zimbabwe: SI 2022-003 Citizenship (Passport Fees) Regulations, 2022

January 7, 2022 9:35 am Published by Comments Off on Zimbabwe: SI 2022-003 Citizenship (Passport Fees) Regulations, 2022

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 […]


Zimbabwe: Government reverses CBZ passport deal, scraps US$20 application fee

January 7, 2022 9:32 am Published by Comments Off on Zimbabwe: Government reverses CBZ passport deal, scraps US$20 application fee

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 […]


Dual Citizenship in Africa: Liberia in comparative context

January 4, 2022 7:29 am Published by Comments Off on Dual Citizenship in Africa: Liberia in comparative context

Contribution to: GLOBALCIT Review Symposium of Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa, Robtel Neajai Pailey Bronwen Manby, London School of Economics African states have shared the global trend to permit dual citizenship. Whereas in the 1960s most of the […]


Kenya pushes on with Huduma Namba as compulsory digital ID amid controversy

January 3, 2022 5:57 pm Published by Comments Off on Kenya pushes on with Huduma Namba as compulsory digital ID amid controversy

By Ayang Macdonald New proposals already in Kenya’s Parliament in the form of a bill seek to introduce multiple changes to the country’s Huduma Namba digital ID scheme which, since its launch in 2019, has elicited a lingering controversy. One […]


Tunisie : Noureddine Bhiri poursuivi pour octroi illégal de passeports et de certificats de nationalité

January 3, 2022 11:09 am Published by Comments Off on Tunisie : Noureddine Bhiri poursuivi pour octroi illégal de passeports et de certificats de nationalité

D’après le ministre tunisien de l’Intérieur, Taoufik Charfeddine Par Mourad Belhaj Le ministre tunisien de l’Intérieur, Taoufik Charfeddine a tenu une conférence de presse, ce lundi 3 janvier 2022, au siège du ministère, pour revenir sur la récente décision d’assignation […]


Births and Deaths Registration Act No.2 of 1928 (as amended to 2022)

January 1, 2022 3:39 pm Published by Comments Off on Births and Deaths Registration Act No.2 of 1928 (as amended to 2022)

Laws of Kenya revised edition 2022 An Act of Parliament to provide for the notification and registration of births and deaths and other matters incidental thereto [Act No. 2 of 1928, Act No. 25 of 1950, Legal Notice 299 of […]