This report discusses citizenship in Cameroon. It explores the history of citizenship in this country, modes of acquisition and loss, and current debates and reform plans regarding citizenship policy. Download from European University Institute: https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/71404
At 16, in her first year of high school, Ziya* gave birth. Just as she was learning how to be a mother to her son, her own mother died. “Things were bad,” recalls Ziya. “My mother was helping me raise […]
L’Agence Nationale d’Identification des Personnes (ANIP) digitalise ses services. Dans un communiqué rendu public, ce mardi 25 mai 2021, l’ANIP annonce la possibilité de faire désormais en ligne, la demande de certains actes. Plus besoin de se rendre obligatoirement au […]
Saly-Portudal (Mbour), 25 mai (APS) – Le Sénégal travaille à éradiquer l’apatridie d’ici à 2024, en conformité avec les objectifs arrêtés dans ce sens au niveau international, a réaffirmé mardi la secrétaire générale du ministère de la Justice, Aïcha Gassama […]
On 25 May 2021, LAS in cooperation with UNHCR and the General Secretariat of the Arab Interior Ministers’ Council organized the regional meeting: Towards a Regional Action Plan on Belonging and Legal Identity, in the presence of representatives from the […]
LLM dissertation by Muhammed Samy Ahmed Abstract The Egyptian legal structure has long discriminated against women. Taking nationality law as an example, it is obvious that all consecutive nationality laws have ignored women’s right concerning passing on and acquiring nationality. […]
By Jale Richard President Salva Kiir has revoked the appointment of Afekuru Animu Risasi as a member of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly. Kiir then appointed Hon. Joseph Lual Achuil from the SPLM party as a replacement. No reasons were […]
La cérémonie de clôture du projet “Augmenter l’enregistrement des naissances des enfants de moins de cinq ans dans les Régions de Labé et de Conakry’’ a été présidée par le Général Bouréma Condé, Ministre de l’Administration du Territoire. Durant trois […]
Imagine not being able to vote, get a driver’s licence or even open a bank account. Suppose you were considered not to ‘exist’ in your own country, and being a person suspended in Statelessness. It’s estimated that over 100 million […]
Namibia on Tuesday issued emergency travel documents to the twin daughters of a gay couple who have been battling to take them home following their birth to a surrogate in South Africa, one of the fathers told Reuters. Namibian Phillip […]
By Petra Marais and Charlene Kreuser While SA navigates through the pandemic, the Department of Home Affairs has opened and closed the doors to some of its services, citing the protection of its staff’s health. In the legal sense, citizenship […]
By Franklin Draku The government has planned to phase out the current national identity cards by 2024 and replace them with electronic ones. The announcement was made during the handover of office to the new executive director of National Identification […]