By Rachel Sherman In April, Coda Story’s Keren Weitzberg wrote about the biometric registration system in Kenya and the “double registered” ethnic Somali Kenyans left in limbo without ID cards. The country’s biometric system was intended to reduce incidences of […]
By Lavie Mutanganshuro The Government of Rwanda on Friday, July 24, received, on humanitarian grounds, a stateless person named Amin Hassoun who was relocated from the United States after completing a prison sentence. By definition, according to the 1954 Convention […]
By Tania Broughton Constitutional Court says that Home Affairs conduct is “brazenly incompetent”, intransigent, indifferent and inefficient Children born in other countries are entitled to South African citizenship as long as one parent is South African, the Constitutional Court has […]
Government Gazette Vol. 661 (no. 43551) The Department of Home Affairs (“DHA”) invites public comments on the draft Amendment Regulations on the South African Citizenship Act, 1995. Written submissions should reach the DHA on or before 30 August 2020. Submissions […]
Par Me Dieudonné Tshibuabua Mbuyi L’article 10 de la Constitution congolaise, qui mentionne : « La nationalité congolaise est une et exclusive. Elle ne peut être détenue concurremment avec aucune autre…. », consacre le principe de l’unité et de l’exclusivité de […]
PRESS RELEASE The Constitutional Court yesterday handed down judgment in a case launched by Lawyers for Human Rights in 2016, but which started with negotiations with the Department of Home Affairs as far back as 2013. The applicants ask for […]
By Bongani Nkosi A landmark court ruling has declared that children of South Africans born out of the country are entitled to get their citizenship. The Constitutional Court has ordered Home Affairs to grant the rightfully-deserved citizenship to four adults […]
For the majority of the population in Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya, social distancing, washing hands and wearing a mask is simply impossible. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the living conditions of Nubians and other ethnic minorities in […]
CCT 155/19 Extracts from media summary: On Wednesday, 22 July 2020 at 10h00, the Constitutional Court handed down judgment in an application for confirmation of an order of constitutional invalidity made by the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division, […]
Extracts related to Africa: Mobilizing governments and civil society In April and May in Somalia, UNHCR undertook consultations with senior government officials of the Ministry of Interior, Federal Affairs and Reconciliation to discuss the implementation of Somalia’s High-Level Segment pledges, […]
By Emmanuel Paul Throughout history, humans have needed means of identification in the course of their daily activities. Over the years, this has evolved from sounds and other bodily signals to physical tokens like passports and ID cards among others. […]
By Kofi Ata I have had the opportunity of reading the written judgement of the Supreme Court (SC) in the case of the National Democratic Congress/Mark Banson v the Electoral Commission (EC)/the Attorney General and whilst I agree with most […]