HARARE, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) — Zimbabwe is battling to clear a backlog of more than 400,000 passports dating as far back as 2018 due to shortage of foreign currency to import required consumables, Registrar-General Clemence Masango said Thursday. He told […]
Case Number: CCT155/19 Hearing Date: 13 February 2020 [judgment reserved] MEDIA SUMMARY The following explanatory note is provided to assist the media in reporting this case and is not binding on the Constitutional Court or any member of the Court. […]
Ethiopia’s electoral agency asked immigration authorities to establish the citizenship of a prominent critic of the Horn of Africa government’s leadership, just months before national elections. Jawar Mohammed, a member of the Oromo Federalist Congress, gave up his U.S. citizenship […]
Aidan Eyakuze & Khalifa Said Development, volume 63, pages 95–99 (2020) The article explores the weaponization of identity and citizenship in Tanzania that is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It illustrates the types of discriminations that a citizen can face for not […]
The short answer Applying for birth certificates can be complicated. You may need help. The whole question I am a Zimbabwean lady with three children with a South African man. We are not married. How can we apply for birth […]
Assembly of the African Union Thirty-Third Ordinary Session 09-10 February 2020 Assembly/AU/Decl.1(XXXIII) 33rd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union, 9-10 February 2020, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Declaration on the 2019 Theme of the Year on “Refugees, Returnees and Internally […]
En tenant cette première sortie de l’année 2020 à Fada N’Gourma (chef-lieu de la région de l’Est), les responsables de l’ONI font un clin d’œil aux zones touchées par l’insécurité. Pour le directeur général de l’ONI, en quittant la capitale […]
By Moses Walubiri The mooted amendment is tailored to adding the Maragoli to the 56 officially recognized indigenous Ugandan communities. KAMPALA – After years of living in the shadows of a country they have known as their home, Parliament has […]
By Leonard Mwakalebela in Dodoma THE Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security has asked the government to scrutinize thoroughly refugees’ background before granting them citizenship status. Presenting its annual report on Wednesday, the committee cautioned that there were […]
By Lotte Manicom Thousands of Angolan refugees – who fled civil war to SA 20 years ago – are facing possible mass deportation next year. They have been granted temporary visas with legal stay until midnight on 31 December 2021. […]
ARTICLE 19 Eastern Africa is concerned that the de-activation of SIM cards, following the end of the biometric registration process in Tanzania directly impacts the ability of hundreds of thousands people to exercise their rights to freedom of expression and […]
Extract: OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS BO Abidjan with the support of its key partners have contributed and made possible the enactment of the National Action Plan for the Eradication of Statelessness (PANEA-CI) by the Government of Côte d’Ivoire at the minister’s council […]