Author Archives for Bronwen Manby

Cameroun: Des actes d’état civil pour tous !

March 25, 2021 2:00 pm Published by Comments Off on Cameroun: Des actes d’état civil pour tous !

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. […]


Namibia: Parents of stateless twins take case to high court

March 25, 2021 8:45 am Published by Comments Off on Namibia: Parents of stateless twins take case to high court

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 […]


People’s Perspectives on ID and Civil Registration in Rwanda : Research Report

March 24, 2021 4:42 pm Published by Comments Off on People’s Perspectives on ID and Civil Registration in Rwanda : Research Report

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 […]


Libya’s forgotten ones

March 23, 2021 8:57 am Published by Comments Off on Libya’s forgotten ones

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, […]


Report on Citizenship Law : The Gambia

March 23, 2021 8:26 am Published by Comments Off on Report on Citizenship Law : The Gambia

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 […]


‘Legal identity for all’: What’s at stake for democracy in Africa

March 21, 2021 11:45 am Published by Comments Off on ‘Legal identity for all’: What’s at stake for democracy in Africa

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 […]


Zimbabwe: Shock over high numbers of stateless learners in Matabeleland

March 21, 2021 8:41 am Published by Comments Off on Zimbabwe: Shock over high numbers of stateless learners in Matabeleland

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 […]


Déchéance de nationalité : « Le pouvoir tente d’opposer les Algériens d’Algérie aux Algériens de la diaspora »

March 19, 2021 10:06 am Published by Comments Off on Déchéance de nationalité : « Le pouvoir tente d’opposer les Algériens d’Algérie aux Algériens de la diaspora »

Par Nadia Henni-Moulaï Une disposition de loi, annoncée le 3 mars par le Garde des sceaux Belkacem Zeghmati propose de déchoir de leur nationalité les Algériens de l’étranger mettant en péril « les intérêts de l’État ». Le constitutionnaliste Massensen […]


Identification des personnes au Bénin: L’ANIP lance la distribution de 45.000 cartes biométriques

March 19, 2021 9:18 am Published by Comments Off on Identification des personnes au Bénin: L’ANIP lance la distribution de 45.000 cartes biométriques

Le Gestionnaire-Mandataire de l’ANIP, M Cyrille Gougbédji a lancé ce jeudi 18 mars 2021, la distribution des cartes nationales d’identité biométriques. La cérémonie de lancement a eu lieu en présence de la représentante du Chef de l’État, Mme Laurence Quenum […]


Validation Workshop on Statelessness in Namibia

March 19, 2021 8:53 am Published by Comments Off on Validation Workshop on Statelessness in Namibia

Validation workshop on the qualitative study on STATELESSNESS and the risk of STATELESSNESS in NAMIBIA. Watch: https://www.facebook.com/LACNamibia/videos/196548955575073/


Botswana: Woman takes gov’t to court over dual citizenship

March 18, 2021 4:30 pm Published by Comments Off on Botswana: Woman takes gov’t to court over dual citizenship

A Motswana woman married to a Norwegian man has taken the Botswana Government to court demanding that her children be granted dual citizenship, which is currently outlawed in Botswana. Botswana currently does not allow for dual citizenship under any circumstances. […]


Un projet de déchéance de nationalité provoque colère et stupéfaction en Algérie

March 17, 2021 1:55 pm Published by Comments Off on Un projet de déchéance de nationalité provoque colère et stupéfaction en Algérie

Le ministre de la justice souhaiterait déchoir de la nationalité tout citoyen qui, depuis l’étranger, « porte préjudice aux intérêts de l’État ». Par Mustapha Kessous et Madjid Zerrouky Colère et stupéfaction. Parmi les Algériens vivant à l’étranger, l’émoi provoqué […]