Author Archives for Bronwen Manby

Le Niger modernise sa gestion de l’état civil

May 10, 2021 12:27 pm Published by Comments Off on Le Niger modernise sa gestion de l’état civil

Cérémonie de lancement du projet d’informatisation du système de l’état civil Par Matti Dan Mallam Adamou La rencontre, de ce mercredi 2 juin 2021, présidée par M. Alkache Alhada, Ministre de l’Intérieur et de la Décentralisation a marqué le lancement […]


Egypt: A recent ruling by the Supreme Constitutional Court regarding the acquisition of Egyptian nationality

May 9, 2021 4:38 pm Published by Comments Off on Egypt: A recent ruling by the Supreme Constitutional Court regarding the acquisition of Egyptian nationality

Translation by Google Translate. Written by: Ali Abdel Gawad The Supreme Constitutional Court, headed by Counselor Said Marei, ruled that the case referred by the Administrative Court to request a ruling on the constitutionality of the text of the second […]


Namibian court rejects couple’s appeal to bring their babies home

May 9, 2021 7:21 am Published by Comments Off on Namibian court rejects couple’s appeal to bring their babies home

Chris de Beer-Procter It’s a sunny morning in Johannesburg and a cautiously optimistic yet tense Phillip Lühl is eating breakfast at a table in a relative’s home. “The waiting is the worst,” he says, barely lifting his eyes from his […]


Kenya: Nubians rights forum accuses government of discrimination

May 8, 2021 4:59 pm Published by Comments Off on Kenya: Nubians rights forum accuses government of discrimination

By Joseph Ndunda The Nubian Rights Forum (NRF) has accused the government of discriminating against the community and deliberate failure to issue national identity cards to its youth. NRF executive director Shafi Ali Hussein further claims some officers at the […]


Cameroun : initiative, 200 actes de naissance pour des enfants de Douala 4ème

May 7, 2021 8:44 am Published by Comments Off on Cameroun : initiative, 200 actes de naissance pour des enfants de Douala 4ème

«L’acte de naissance est le premier document dans la vie d’un individu et le plus important car il le suit durant toute sa vie. C’est ce document qui lui confère la personnalité juridique à un individu». Dr Hervé Moby, le Maire […]


Determination and Proof of Tanzanian Citizenship

May 7, 2021 8:02 am Published by Comments Off on Determination and Proof of Tanzanian Citizenship

Clement Bernardo Mubanga, doctoral thesis (2020). Abstract This study analyses as to what connection should be entitling a person to citizenship given the context of Tanzania. It points out discrepancies existing both in law and practice in determining Tanzanian citizenship […]


National digital ID initiatives have a trust problem

May 5, 2021 2:46 pm Published by Comments Off on National digital ID initiatives have a trust problem

By Nanjala Nyabola The move toward digitizing identity and biometrics will only make existing systemic bias harder to crack. The future of travel is up in the air. As countries and companies attempt to define what safety looks like in […]


Report on citizenship law : Sierra Leone

May 3, 2021 3:46 pm Published by Comments Off on Report on citizenship law : Sierra Leone

By Amadu Wurie Khan Introduction Sierra Leone’s history,like that of other colonised African countries,has shaped the country’s citizenship laws in particular ways.The transatlantic slave trade, inward migration by Africans and non–Africans, and the fight for self–rule and decolonisation predicated on […]


Guidelines and Procedures for the Acquisition of National Documents by Zambians in the Diaspora

May 1, 2021 11:10 am Published by Comments Off on Guidelines and Procedures for the Acquisition of National Documents by Zambians in the Diaspora

This booklet provides Guidelines and Procedures for the Acquisition of Zambian National Identity Documents by the Zambian Diaspora. The main purpose of the Guidelines and Procedures is to: i. Ensure smooth facilitation and easy acquisition of National Identity Documents; ii. […]


Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio Confers Citizenship on African Americans

April 29, 2021 6:04 pm Published by Comments Off on Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio Confers Citizenship on African Americans

State House, Freetown, Thursday 29 April 2021 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has conferred Sierra Leonean citizenship on 59 African Americans who traced their origin to Sierra Leone through DNA, telling them that home was indeed home. […]


Community solutions for improving women’s access to ID in Nigeria

April 29, 2021 3:03 pm Published by Comments Off on Community solutions for improving women’s access to ID in Nigeria

By Lucia Hanmer, Victoria Esquivel-Korsiak, & Rohini P. Pande Globally, an estimated 1 billion people do not have an official ID—of these, the majority are women. The 2017 Global Findex survey found that 45% of women in Low Income Countries (LICs) do not have an ID […]


Identification and Citizenship in Africa: Biometrics, the Documentary State and Bureaucratic Writings of the Self

April 29, 2021 3:00 pm Published by Comments Off on Identification and Citizenship in Africa: Biometrics, the Documentary State and Bureaucratic Writings of the Self

Edited by Séverine Awenengo Dalberto & Richard Banégas In the context of a global biometric turn, this book investigates processes of legal identification in Africa ‘from below,’ asking what this means for the relationship between citizens and the state. Almost […]