Parties to the 1954 & 1961 Conventions Statelessness Government Focal Points nominated National Action Plans Birth registration Naturalisation/confirmation of nationality Studies Download: https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/68688
Birth registration of children in Nigeria has been low, despite the initiative introduced in 2012 by National Population Commission with the support of UNICEF (Nigeria) to address the problem of low birth registration in the country. The ICIR commissioned three reporters […]
By COLLINS OMULO The Nubian community has expressed fears that its members risk being locked out of the ongoing National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS) registration, popularly known as Huduma Namba, since most of them don’t have national identity cards. […]
By John Namkwahe Dar es Salaam. President John Magufuli has instructed the National Identifications Authority (Nida) to speed up the issuance of national IDs to Tanzanians. The President’s order comes after the Tanzania Communication Regulatory Authority (TCRA) through telecommunication companies […]
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(Togo Officiel) – Le Togo disposera bientôt d’un nouveau code de nationalité. Un atelier de validation de l’avant-projet de loi portant modification du code de la nationalité togolaise s’est ouvert ce mardi 23 avril 2019 à Lomé. La rencontre, qui va […]
Plus d’un tiers des mineurs sans état civil dans le monde sont issus du continent. Non déclarés à leur naissance, ces jeunes se retrouvent sans droits. Par Matteo Maillard Une phrase suffit pour installer la stupeur dans la pièce et […]
By John Owen Nwachukwu The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has come up with a fresh claim about the true nationality of President Muhmmadu Buhari. Kanu, in his broadcast from the United Kingdom at the […]
Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D The law of attraction says like attracts like, which explains why Muhammadu Buhari is a magnet for mediocrities. Almost all his appointees are, like him, underwhelming, intellectually incurious rubes. It’s no wonder that even the lawyers […]
Since independence the Kenyan state has decided who is an “insider” and who is an “outsider” and which territorial spaces they should occupy. This has led to the politics of exclusion and marginalization based on geographical boundaries, religion or ethnic […]
During a three day meeting held in Nairobi this week, countries from the Great Lakes region have agreed to adopt a common approach to deal with statelessness in the region. This will involve a common legal framework that will guarantee […]
Lawmakers in the Nigerian Senate on Wednesday vehemently rejected a bill seeking to amend the Constitution to allow persons of African origin acquire Nigerian citizenship . The bill sponsored by Senator Ben Murray-Bruce aims at re-integrating and developing the African […]