by KEVIN CHERUIYOT The government will not extend Huduma Namba registration, Interior CS Fred Matiang’i has said. The mass registration will end on May 18. Kenyans in the diaspora have until June 20 to register. Mass registration for Kenyans in […]
By Adetola BADEMOSI Birth registration is the first step towards recognising a child’s inalienable right as a human being, but unfortunately, statistics have shown that Nigeria is still grappling with achieving universal registration of births. In this part two of the […]
By Carol Natukunda The government plans to roll out a special birth certificate registration programme for children born during the war in Northern Uganda. The decision follows estimates from a pilot study done in 2018 in the region, that showed […]
By STEPHEN ODUOR People who will not have registered for the Huduma Namba by the deadline date could be considered foreigners and a threat to national security, Tana River County Commissioner Oning’oi Ole’sosio has said. In an interview, Mr Ole’sosio […]
By Sibahle Siqathule No IDs, so no social grants: family survives off grandmother’s pension Eighty-year-old Nothembinkosi Nontsasa cuts a defeated figure sitting outside her crumbling home in Dlibona village in the small town of Flagstaff, Eastern Cape. Her adult children […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja will on Thursday open hearing into a suit before Justice Inyang Ekwo, questioning former vice president Atiku Abubakar’s claim to being a citizen of Nigeria by birth. This is coming few weeks after […]
The Fula are pastoralists who have long lived in the country, but almost all are at risk of statelessness. By Don Murray and Horaci Garcia Marti in Kong, Côte d’Ivoire In the heat of the afternoon an old woman leans forward […]
Report by Mugure Riungu, Francis Onguko and William Sawe. Lack of identify cards and birth certificates among high school students and children respectively in Buuri East has hindered Huduma Namba registration. Area DCC Peter Jumwa said they have registered 51,000 […]
Aminata Sidibé was born in Côte d’Ivoire in 1960, the same year the country became independent. Three other generations of her family have followed, but all have the same problem as Aminata: they are still not recognized as Ivorian. Like […]
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire–This week, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Government of Côte d’Ivoire are celebrating the second anniversary of the Banjul Plan of Action, which was adopted in 2017 by […]
La Côte d’Ivoire a fait d’énormes progrès ces dernières années en matière de lutte contre l’apatridie. Selon les chiffres de l’Agence des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR), 161 personnes à risque d’apatridie ont obtenu en 2018, des certificats de […]
A $60 million government initiative to collect the data of millions in an effort to enhance services has been marked by criticism about its inefficiency and allegations of misconduct by Keren Weitzberg Across from the Hilton hotel in downtown Nairobi, […]