By: Olajide Adelana Participants at a round-table meeting organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Abuja have harped on the need for West African countries to have robust […]
Le ministre de la justice et de la législation, Séverin Quenum a présidé ce vendredi 02 novembre 2018 à l’hôtel Golden Tulip, l’atelier technique des stratégies opérationnellles pour la mise en œuvre du Projet d’Enregistrement à titre Dérogatoire à l’Etat […]
The present Note provides guidance to the UN system on addressing statelessness by outlining guiding principles and policy framework for action. The UN engagement in addressing statelessness is guided by seven principles that support the development, promotion and implementation of […]
By Bronwen Manby Citizenship in Africa provides a comprehensive exploration of nationality laws in Africa, placing them in their theoretical and historical context. It offers the first serious attempt to analyse the impact of nationality law on politics and society […]
Sub-Inspector Buba Badjie, registration officer of The Gambia Commission for Refugees has stated that nationality is the legal status representing the country from which an individual belongs. Badjie was presenting a paper on nationality and citizenship at a day’s stakeholder […]
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in collaboration with the Ministry of Security and Social Development of the Republic of the Sudan organized a high-level workshop on the Sudanese women’s right to (pass) citizenship, on […]
Finding that the applicant was not a citizen by birth because the father was not ‘ordinarily resident’ in Zimbabwe at the time of her birth (in the USA). Judgment: Patel v RG and Others HH 701-18
by Mandla Ndlovu At least 4000 people of Shona origin living in Kenya have launched a bid to attain citizenship after their families have been residing in Kenya for close to 60 years and yet they have remained undocumented and […]
Gambians have called on the Constitutional Review Commission to look into the issue of citizenship when writing a new constitution for The Gambia. Ida Joof, a native of Prince village in Upper Niumi, North Bank Region urged the commission to […]
By Ferdinand Jumbo-Asukwo Member states of the Economic Community of West African States Commission have made significant progress to end statelessness since the launch of the global campaign in November 2014. Dr. Siga Jagne, Commissioner for ECOWAS Social Affairs and […]
By Francis Arinze Iloani The National Population Commission (NPC) is frustrating birth registration by charging applicants N4500 before issuing them birth certificates, Daily Trust’s investigation has shown. The United Nations Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF) factsheet on birth registration in Nigeria reveals […]
Two-thirds of Liberians want the exclusive black citizenship law in the country to be maintained, a new Afrobarometer survey reveals. The same proportion say only Liberian citizens should be allowed to own land. President George Weah has described these citizenship […]