By Mayibongwe Maqhina Cape Town – The Home Affairs Department is investigating close to a million “blocked” identity documents that were found to be suspicious, duplicate or fraudulently issued with falsified supporting documents. This was revealed by Home Affairs Minister […]
Aidan Frederick Lwanga Eyakuze vs Commissioner General of Tanzania Immigration Service Department & Others (Civil Appeal 13 of 2020) [2020] TZCA 1884 (04 December 2020) (Appeal from the Ruling and Order of the High Court of Tanzania,Main Registry at Dar […]
Con esta reforma el Gobierno quiere subsanar las lagunas que existían en la vigente ley reguladora de la nacionalidad ecuatoguineana adoptada en el mes de julio del año 2011. Por Rubén Darío Ndumu Bengono Elúgu Los dos grupos parlamentarios de […]
PRESS STATEMENT On the 26th and 27th November 2020, journalists working in community radio and community print media from around South Africa gathered for a workshop with the theme “Reporting on Statelessness in South Africa”. The workshop was co-hosted by […]
Des personnalités n’ont pas été retenues pour les régionales du 6 décembre. Elles ont appris qu’elles ne jouiraient plus de la nationalité camerounaise. Par Henri Fotso La question de la double nationalité n’agitait pas trop l’opinion publique jusque-là. Mais depuis […]
By Bernadette Wicks In 1995, Joseph Emmanuel Jose and Jonathan Diabaka’s parents fled their war-torn home country and came to SA. The following year, Jose was born. He was followed a year later by his brother. The Supreme Court of […]
Tito, Ms LF to ask the Minister of Home Affairs (a) What is the total number of cases of blocked identity documents (IDs) in his department and (b) how long does it take his department to investigate and resolve the […]
By Francinah Baaitse Mmana Since 2013 scores of Batswana of Angolan descent have been rendered stateless after government revoked their national identity cards. This started when government used the renunciation law, which requires children born of a foreign parent to […]
Sixth Ordinary Session of the Specialized Technical Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs (Experts Meeting) 23-27 November 2020 Video-Conference STC/Legal/Exp/ Report Original: English Draft Protocol to The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Specific Aspects on the […]
Imbert-Vier, Simon. « Identifier les nationaux à Djibouti (1946-2004) », Le Mouvement Social, vol. 273, no. 4, 2020, pp. 129-145. Cet article étudie les modalités du constat de la nationalité des habitants par l’administration de la Côte française des Somalis, après la […]
By Monique Bennett The Bill of Rights states that every child has the right to a name and a nationality from birth and that the child’s best interests are of paramount importance in every matter concerning the child. Without a […]
M’Bahiakro, 29 nov 2020 (AIP) – Des extraits d’acte de naissance établis pour des enfants de 5 à 17 ans, qui n’avaient pas été déclarés à l’état civil, ont été officiellement remis, samedi 28 novembre 2020, à leurs parents, lors […]