By Tabeth Masengu Introduction Malawi is one of the few African countries that has decided to retain gender discrimination present in its nationality laws, despite amending its constitution within the last three years. Malawi’s Citizenship Act permits foreign wives to […]
By Ayang Macdonald The deadline for Nigerians to procure and integrate the biometrics-based National Identification Number (NIN) with their SIM cards as directed by the Federal Government should be extended by another two months, a Federal High Court in the […]
Governments around the world are increasingly making registration in national ID systems mandatory for populations to access social benefits, healthcare services, and other forms of state support. By virtue of their design, these systems inevitably exclude certain population groups from […]
NAIROBI (HORN OBSERVER) – Kenya authorities on Friday denied IDs to hundreds of Somali people who lived in Kenya’s coastal region for more than thirty years barely two days after the East Africa nation ordered UN to draft a plan […]
Eba Kandovazu THE High Court will on 19 April 2021 deliver judgment on whether or not twin baby girls that were born via surrogacy in South Africa will be granted permission to enter Namibia. The names of the twins’ parents, […]
Le Projet d’appui de la modernisation de l’état civil, PAMEC, a organisé le clou d’une campagne de sensibilisation en faveur de la délivrance des actes d’état civil le 19 mars 2021 à Yaoundé grâce à la coopération allemande au développement. […]
By Eba Kandovazu THE parents of twin babies, Paula and Maya, have approached the High Court in Windhoek to seek an order that will compel the Namibian Government to grant the newborn pair citizenship. Guillermo Delgado was accompanied by his […]
Rwanda’s electronic national population register (NPR) and ID project was first launched in 2008 and has since achieved impressive coverage. Today, the NPR captures the information of approximately 98 percent of the population. It is commonly considered to be one […]
By Ghady Abdulaziz Tens of thousands of stateless people live in Libya. Successive governments have been holding out the prospect of citizenship to them for decades – and complicate everything ever more. The family of Yousef Abdulkareem, a 54-year-old teacher, […]
By Gaye Sowe and Maria Saine This report is organised as follows. The first part sets out the historical background of the legal framework of the Gambia’s citizenship regime. It looks at both the colonial history and the constitutional history […]
By Bronwen Manby In September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), painstakingly elaborated by the combined mass of global development actors, established the target that states should, by 2030, ‘provide legal identity for all, including birth registration’. The SDG target […]
AS many as 300 out of 700 learners at a primary school in Kezi, Matabeleland South province, were found to have no identity documents during a fact-finding mission by a Parliamentary committee, rendering them stateless. This was revealed by Umzingwane […]