Dans le but de dôter chaque nouveau-né d’un acte de naissance, le réseau COJELPAID en collaboration avec l’ONG CADEC, a procédé ce mercredi 18 mars 2020, à la mise en œuvre du projet d’Appui aux efforts d’accès aux actes d’État […]
By Maureen Odunga THREE million out of the nine million SIM cards switched off earlier due to users’ failure to finalise biometric registration have been retrieved for continued use. New figures make up 36,176, 264 SIM cards which have been […]
Daniel Cullen On 30 January 2020, the High Court of Kenya – the first level of the country’s superior courts, whose decisions can be appealed to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court – handed down its judgment in the […]
Le directeur général du Bureau national de l’état civil (Bunec) vient de séjourner dans la région de l’Extrême-Nord. Le voyage d’Alexandre Marie Yomo avait trait à la de performance dans les mécanismes d’établissement des actes d’état civil au Cameroun. Un […]
Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of Eritrea CEDAW/C/ERI/CO/6 Nationality 31.The Committee notes that Proclamation No. 21/1992 on the acquisition of nationality guarantees equal rights among sexes. It also welcomes the efforts of the State party in promoting birth […]
Johannesburg – The “shaming” of individuals by questioning their nationality is in the spotlight after a tweet attacking EFF MP Naledi Chirwa. Twitter user “Lerato Pillay” started the discussion on Sunday, when a user tweeted unsubstantiated allegations that Chirwa’s family […]
Nathalie Raunet Robert-Nicoud Recurring questions in Ghana about who constitutes the electorate have in recent years turned to the issue of foreign voters. Are people crossing national borders during elections truly eligible? Political parties have begun to exploit the lack […]
By Jeanne-Marié Versluis Hundreds of children in South Africa are not having their births registered, simply because their parents are unmarried and the department of home affairs does not recognise the complexities surrounding these cases. This perpetuates the notion that […]
People of Fulani origin who say they are citizens of Ghana have said they are being treated as though “they are refugees” following the continuous discrimination against them at some national institutions. For instance, they said they had been denied […]
By Umaru Fofana Saren Idaho said he has no connection to Sierra Leone and had never been to the country until he was deported there from the US six months ago. “I know nobody here,” lamented the 55-year-old father of […]
Le petit Nathan a quatre ans. Bien qu’inscrit à l’école primaire, le garçon n’a cependant pas d’acte de naissance. « Il a été abandonné par son père. Sa mère, qui l’a eu jeune, ne savait pas qu’il fallait lui en […]
Le Mouvement je m’inscris sur la liste électorale et je vote pour la Côte d’Ivoire (Milev-Ci) exhorte tous les Ivoiriens à se faire établir les cartes nationales d’identité. En vue de ratisser large, cette organisation est sur le terrain pour […]