Author Archives for Bronwen Manby
September 22, 2018 10:03 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
State House, Banjul, 22 September 2018 – His Excellency, Adama Barrow, President of the Republic of The Gambia, has urged all eligible Gambians to register with the Immigration Department to acquire the Gambian National ID card, which would be rolled […]
September 21, 2018 3:03 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Il s’agit d’enfants camerounais et qui vivent dans leur pays sans actes de naissance. Certains parents rencontrés expliquent n’avoir pas permis à leurs progénitures d’avoir ce document, en raison des problèmes de santé. C’est le cas du dénommé Mohaman. Dans […]
September 21, 2018 12:28 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
The federal government has directed the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), to with immediate effect, put an end to the payment of fines by Nigerians holding dual citizenship at the nation’s International Airports. The minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau […]
September 20, 2018 5:03 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
The Burundi deputies of the National Assembly unanimously adopted on Wednesday, September 19th, 2018, a draft law on the country’s accession to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. The Convention, formally establishing the legal status of […]
September 20, 2018 4:59 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
BUJUMBURA, 19 septembre(Xinhua) — Les députés de l’Assemblée nationale (chambre basse du Parlement bicaméral burundais) ont adopté à l’unanimité, mercredi, un projet de loi portant adhésion du pays à la Convention de 1954 relative au statut des apatrides. Cette Convention, […]
September 20, 2018 4:55 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
L’Assemblée Nationale a analysé et adopté à l’unanimité deux projets de loi, l’un portant adhésion de la République du Burundi à la convention de 1954 relative au statut des apatrides et l’autre portant adhésion à la convention de 1961 relative […]
September 20, 2018 4:27 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
“The purpose of this Act is to record and regulate essential facts about South Sudanese so as to create legal document for use in establishment and protection of civil rights of individuals by creating a data source for compilation of […]
September 19, 2018 10:17 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the immediate commencement of the implementation of a strategic roadmap for Digital Identity Ecosystem in Nigeria at its meeting, held on Wednesday September 12th, 2018 and chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR. The […]
September 18, 2018 7:32 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Zakariyya Adaramola The Federal Government says it is enforcing the mandatory use of the National Identification Number (NIN) beginning from January 1, 2019. The Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Engr. Aliyu Abubakar Aziz, disclosed this in […]
September 18, 2018 7:29 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Feyi Fawehinmi I was never a fan of the now former Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun. I’m also not a fan of the NYSC programme – as I wrote here in December 2016, the programme is an immoral and unfair […]
September 14, 2018 6:57 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
REGISTRAR-General Mr Tobaiwa Tonneth Mudede has agreed to issue a passport to United Kingdom-based Zimbabwean journalist Violet Gonda, who last week unsuccessfully applied for the travel document because she was “blacklisted”. Gonda, who returned home early this year after spending […]
September 13, 2018 7:32 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Layse Farias and Charlotte Arnaud In August, an ambitious data collection exercise was jointly launched by UNHCR, the Government of Cote d’Ivoire, and the National Institute of Statistics (INS) to map and improve data on statelessness in the country. […]