Minister of Home Affairs v Miriam Ali Today, the Supreme Court of Appeal handed down judgment confirming the Western Cape High Court’s (WCHC) position, which provides that children born in South Africa to foreign national parents are entitled to apply […]
By Satang Nabaneh The ongoing public consultations on the constitutional review process spearheaded by the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) highlights a polarising debate on citizenship which reflects the difficulty of consensus building given the varied interests of stakeholders. Few of […]
The Communication concerns Ms Iman Hassan Benjamin who was not able to attend her university education due to lack of national identity card, and further becomes stateless. She was denied an identity card because her late father would have become […]
Time is running out for Ebenezer Odei to get the funding he needs to be able to attend university in 2019. Odei is a matric learner at Grassy Park High School. His parents are Ghanaian and came to South Africa […]
Botul and her four children are members of Kenya’s Nubian community. Despite the fact that Nubians are Kenyan citizens, these Muslim-majority ethnic and tribal groups are forced to undergo a lengthy and discriminatory vetting process to obtain the identity documents […]
By Mathews Musukwa Zambia has joined the rest of the world in a campaign to end statelessness through a decade of Global Action Plan to End Statelessness. […] In Zambia, an undisclosed number of persons mostly migrants, refugees and persons […]
A new report commissioned for UNHCR, The UN Refugee Agency, warns that thousands of people living in the East African Community (EAC), namely Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda are stateless or at risk of statelessness. The report details […]
The Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the poorest countries in the world has one of the most expensive passports and Comoros issues diplomatic passports to non-Comorians. By TAMA MULE Albert Karaziwan is a multi-millionaire who in 1992 founded Semlex, […]
Egypt’s interior ministry has approved requests by 44 Egyptians to acquire a foreign nationality without retaining their Egyptian citizenship. The decision was published in Egypt’s official gazette on Wednesday. The ministry explained that the decision comes per the constitution and […]
CRC/C/MOZ/3-4 Combined third and fourth periodic reports submitted by Mozambique under article 44 of the Convention, due in 2016 * A. Name and nationality (article 7) 135.The right of a Mozambican child to a name and nationality is duly enshrined […]
Un ancien détenu salafiste a demandé aux autorités marocaines d’être déchu de sa nationalité marocaine. En cause, “un procès inéquitable et la contrainte de signer une déclaration n’incluant pas ses dires et qui le mettait en accusation”. C’est le journal […]
Les acteurs de l’état-civil de la région du Sud ont échangé à Ebolowa le 19 Novembre dernier sur les réformes à apporter à cette question, avec la participation d’une délégation de l’Union Européenne. L’objectif est de rappeler l’importance de l’état-civil […]