By Alexis Doumbia Abidjan — THE Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has pledged to eradicate statelessness by 2024. In the region, there at least 700 000 people that are stateless and many more are believed to be at […]
Refusing to suspend court order of 6 February while decision was appealed. Download judgment: Napier Jameson vs Childrens Court judgement 26Feb2018
The Sudanese Council of Ministers passed a bill amending the Sudanese Nationality Law on Sunday. Under the chairmanship of First Vice-President and Prime Minister, Lt. Gen. Bakri Hasan Saleh, the Ministers approved the amendments for 2018. Under the new amendments, […]
The Kenya Citizenship program has developed Flip charts in Kiswahili and a smaller booklet version as paralegal guide. The vision of the flip charts is to guide the paralegals during community meetings. This was as a result of the inconsistency […]
Nairobi – Kenya’s High Court on Monday ordered immigration authorities to allow an outspoken member of the opposition alliance to return to the country, after his deportation earlier this month. Miguna Miguna, a firebrand member of the National Super Alliance […]
Four years after systematic ethnic cleansing led Central African Republic’s Muslim community to flee to neighbouring countries, Enrica Picco explores the challenges facing returnees. At the beginning of the current crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR), from late 2013 […]
Three years after the adoption of the Abidjan Declaration, much progress has been made towards eradicating statelessness in West Africa Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 25 February 2018 – West Africa is celebrating today the third anniversary of the Abidjan Declaration on […]
The U.N. refugee agency reports the Mauritanian Government is issuing birth certificates to thousands of Malian refugee children who were born in Mbera camp, conferring important legal protections upon them. Refugee children who lack a birth certificate more often than […]
Cette déclaration faite le 25 février 2015 vise à trouver des solutions à la grande vulnérabilité́ des apatrides d’ici à 2024, à travers vingt-cinq mesures majeures… PAR M. SANSAN KAMBILÉ, Garde des Sceaux, Ministre de la Justice et des Droits […]
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Cécile Pouilly – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the […]
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By Qaabata Boru & Roland Kalamo On Tuesday, February 20th, 2018: A large movement of refugees – some report several thousand – departed on foot from the Kiziba refugee camp in Western Rwanda. Leaders declared that they were repatriating to […]