Author Archives for Bronwen Manby

Bénin: Réformes sur l’Etat civil et adoption d’un nouveau Code de nationalité: Amnesty œuvre pour la prise en compte de la question d’apatridie

January 12, 2021 11:58 am Published by Comments Off on Bénin: Réformes sur l’Etat civil et adoption d’un nouveau Code de nationalité: Amnesty œuvre pour la prise en compte de la question d’apatridie

Amnesty international Bénin a organisé vendredi, 08 janvier 2021 à l’Infosec à Cotonou, un atelier de concertation interministérielle et de certaines agences sur la prise en compte de la question de l’apatridie dans les réformes sur l’état civil au Bénin […]


End of Statelessness for the Shona In Kenya: The Journey towards Citizenship

January 12, 2021 8:21 am Published by Comments Off on End of Statelessness for the Shona In Kenya: The Journey towards Citizenship

By Bernard Mugendi The Shona community lived in the shadows and were previously not willing to engage with activists due to the fear generated by numerous arrests and harassment they’d been systematically subjected to, especially during the Moi era. Resultantly, […]


Gateway Or Barrier? The Contested Politics Of Humanitarian Biometrics

January 11, 2021 4:00 pm Published by Comments Off on Gateway Or Barrier? The Contested Politics Of Humanitarian Biometrics

By Keren Weitzberg ‘I do not have any documentation that shows that I am a Kenyan,’ Adan lamented. ‘My children have a birth certificate that says: “single parent”. It’s like I had died. And yet I am alive.’ Adan is […]


Au Cameroun, le casse-tête des écoliers « fantômes »

January 11, 2021 12:30 pm Published by Comments Off on Au Cameroun, le casse-tête des écoliers « fantômes »

Adama ne connaît pas son âge. Depuis sa venue au monde, elle n’a jamais eu d’acte de naissance. Officiellement, cette fillette n’existe donc pas. « Je connais mon nom parce qu’on m’appelle Adama Seini », souffle-t-elle. A l’école Camp militaire de Mora, dans la […]


Burkina Faso: en Afrique, une technologie iCivil pour enregistrer les bébés

January 11, 2021 11:45 am Published by Comments Off on Burkina Faso: en Afrique, une technologie iCivil pour enregistrer les bébés

Depuis six ans les ingénieurs burkinabé Adama Sawadogo et français Francis Bourrières proposent un dispositif innovant qui permet l’enregistrement des naissances à distance : iCivil. Lorsqu’un enfant naît, la sage-femme lui remet un bracelet doté d’un code à bulles unique […]


Ghana: There’s no constitutional basis to disqualify someone on dual citizenship – Lawyer

January 8, 2021 7:45 pm Published by Comments Off on Ghana: There’s no constitutional basis to disqualify someone on dual citizenship – Lawyer

Law activist and academician, Prof Stephen Kwaku Asare aka Kwaku Azar has once again penned a position challenging the explanation given by some individuals on the position of the law on dual citizenship. The outspoken lawyer in his article explained […]


Liberian academic launches book on dual citizenship

January 7, 2021 7:31 pm Published by Comments Off on Liberian academic launches book on dual citizenship

Young Liberian academic Dr. Robtel Neajai Pailey has launched a book in Monrovia on Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia. Launching the book in the auditorium of the University of Liberia […]


S. Africa’s plan to record all babies’ biometrics raises privacy fears

January 7, 2021 5:29 pm Published by Comments Off on S. Africa’s plan to record all babies’ biometrics raises privacy fears

By Kim Harrisberg JOHANNESBURG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Plans to photograph and fingerprint every baby born in South Africa for a digital register could lead to data leaks and identity theft without robust safeguards, rights experts said on Thursday. The […]


Conditions d’accès à la nationalité algérienne : Zeghmati s’exprime

January 7, 2021 10:29 am Published by Comments Off on Conditions d’accès à la nationalité algérienne : Zeghmati s’exprime

Par Merzouk Abdelaziz Le Ministre de la Justice Belkacem Zeghmati est revenu ce vendredi 7 janvier sur les conditions d’acquisition de la nationalité algérienne. Intervenant lors d’une plénière au conseil de la nation, consacrée aux questions des sénateurs, le ministre […]


Sierra Leone: Statement by His Excellency, Dr. Julius Maada Bio, at the Ceremony for Granting Citizenships and the Presentation of Passports to African Americans Returning Home

January 5, 2021 5:18 pm Published by Comments Off on Sierra Leone: Statement by His Excellency, Dr. Julius Maada Bio, at the Ceremony for Granting Citizenships and the Presentation of Passports to African Americans Returning Home

Download: Remarks-by-President-Bio-at-the-Ceremony-Granting-Citizenship-and-Presenting-Passports-to-African-Americans Also available at: https://statehouse.gov.sl/statement-by-his-excellency-dr-julius-maada-bio-at-the-ceremony-for-granting-citizenships-and-the-presentation-of-passports-to-african-americans-returning-home-freetown-state-house-4-january-202/


Sierra Leone: President Bio confers citizenship on 22 African American citizens

January 5, 2021 4:26 pm Published by Comments Off on Sierra Leone: President Bio confers citizenship on 22 African American citizens

By Abdul Rashid Thomas President Dr Julius Maada Bio has today granted Sierra Leonean citizenship to 22 African Americans who traced their origin to Sierra Leone through DNA results, most of them with roots to Bo and Tonkolili districts. Handing […]


Why Rwanda amended law on nationality

January 4, 2021 4:50 pm Published by Comments Off on Why Rwanda amended law on nationality

By Emmanuel Ntirenganya The new law governing Rwandan nationality offers preferential treatment to people with special skills, talents and those with substantial investment that are needed in the country. Judith Uwizeye, Minister in the Office of the President, told The […]