Author Archives for Bronwen Manby

Palestinians from Egypt and the Naturalization issues

August 13, 2018 11:43 am Published by Comments Off on Palestinians from Egypt and the Naturalization issues

Laila Taha*  Introduction Palestinians started to seek refuge all over the world due to the Israeli war in 1948\1949. There were two main phases of refuge; first in 1948 (Nakba), and the other in 1967 (Naksa), when almost 15,500 refugees […]


Tanzania : RITA commemorate African Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Day

August 13, 2018 10:22 am Published by Comments Off on Tanzania : RITA commemorate African Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Day

According to RITA’s Communications and Marketing manager, Josephat Kimaro every year, Africa commemorates the day on August 10. This will be the first time that the event will be marked in Tanzania. ‘’This day will involve different activities including birth […]


RDC: Cour d’appel de Bruxelles – Arrêt définitif – 2017/AR/701

August 10, 2018 10:16 am Published by Comments Off on RDC: Cour d’appel de Bruxelles – Arrêt définitif – 2017/AR/701

En cause de : M. LE PROCUREUR GENERAL près la cour d’appel de Bruxelles, dont les bureaux sont établis à 1000 Bruxelles, place Poelaert, 1, appelant ; Contre : M. N. , de nationalité congolaise, né à Matambra (ex-Congo belge, […]


Botswana: X vs Ministry of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs

August 10, 2018 7:32 am Published by Comments Off on Botswana: X vs Ministry of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs

Consent order in a case challenging the refusal of the Attorney General and Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs to register the birth of a child born to a Botswana father. The State agreed to […]


Apatridie : le Tchad invité à élaborer des règles juridiques

August 8, 2018 2:15 pm Published by Comments Off on Apatridie : le Tchad invité à élaborer des règles juridiques

Le groupe d’étude et de recherche en média, communication et TIC, Tchad Stratégy Média, en collaboration avec la section protection de la représentation du Haut commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés au Tchad (UNHCR) ont évalué le 31 juillet […]


No South African citizen should be deprived of their citizenship!

August 8, 2018 11:33 am Published by Comments Off on No South African citizen should be deprived of their citizenship!

We believe that Section 6(1) (a) of the South African Citizenship Act (88 of 1995) is unconstitutional, and that South Africans are being unlawfully stripped of their right to citizenship when voluntary applying for citizenship of another country. The South […]


Niger: Le Chef de l’Etat signe trois décrets portant acquisition de la nationalité nigérienne par option, et naturalisation

August 8, 2018 11:07 am Published by Comments Off on Niger: Le Chef de l’Etat signe trois décrets portant acquisition de la nationalité nigérienne par option, et naturalisation

Le Président de la République, Chef de l’Etat, SE. Issoufou Mahamadou, a signé, hier 7 Août 2018, trois décrets portant respectivement Acquisition de la nationalité nigérienne par option, et Naturalisation. Lire ci-dessus la teneur des trois décrets : Décret n°2018-553/PRN […]


Tanzania: Soon in Dodoma: No national ID card and you’re an intruder

August 8, 2018 8:16 am Published by Comments Off on Tanzania: Soon in Dodoma: No national ID card and you’re an intruder

By Polycarp Machira AS from December this year, any supposed Tanzanian citizen found without a national identification (ID) card in Dodoma Region will be regarded as an illegal immigrant, regional commissioner Binilith Mahenge declared here yesterday. According to Mahenge, relevant […]


Zambia: Birth registration, right of every child

August 7, 2018 12:17 pm Published by Comments Off on Zambia: Birth registration, right of every child

ANITA Siameja is a Kabwe resident and mother of two boys who has come to appreciate the true value of a birth certificate. In 2015 when the process of birth registration was decentralised and introduced in Kabwe, she eventually became […]


Comores: Constitution 2001, revisée 2018

August 6, 2018 5:15 pm Published by Comments Off on Comores: Constitution 2001, revisée 2018

Article 5: Sont citoyens comoriens tous ceux qui sont considérés comme tells par la loi ou en vertu d’une convention internationale. Hors des cas où la loi dispose autrement, aucun comorien de naissaince ne peut être privé de sa nationalité. […]


Liberia: Dual Citizenship Debate: A Moral and Ethical Dilemma

August 6, 2018 10:15 am Published by Comments Off on Liberia: Dual Citizenship Debate: A Moral and Ethical Dilemma

By Rev. Dr. Samuel E. Vansiea Liberia was founded as a Dual Citizenship nation. In the early 1800s almost all of Africa was colonized except the land now called Liberia. The natives traded with Europeans but did not allow them […]


Is citizenship a tool to silence critics in Tanzania?

August 5, 2018 8:05 am Published by Comments Off on Is citizenship a tool to silence critics in Tanzania?

Dar es Salaam. The latest saga in which the Immigration department confiscated the passport of Twaweza’s executive director Aidan Eyakuze has raised more questions than answers. The main question has been: why is it that some passport holders who also […]