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Zimbabwe:ID cards and birth certificates now FREE until November 30

September 20, 2017 11:20 am Published by Comments Off on Zimbabwe:ID cards and birth certificates now FREE until November 30

This is meant to enable more people to get the documents ahead of next year’s general elections. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) commenced voter registration on Monday.Registrar-General Mr Tobaiwa Mudede yesterday said every district in the country’s 10 provinces would […]


Tanzania: Immigration Questions Tanzanian Human Rights Activist Over Citizenship

September 20, 2017 10:34 am Published by Comments Off on Tanzania: Immigration Questions Tanzanian Human Rights Activist Over Citizenship

By Deogratius Kamagi Dar es Salaam — Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition (THRDC) national coordinator Onesmo Olengurumwa has once again been interrogated by officers from the Immigration department over his citizenship. The interrogation took place on Wednesday 20 September at […]


South Africa: Guptas Granted Citizenship Due to ‘Investments, Social Partnerships’

September 18, 2017 7:04 pm Published by Comments Off on South Africa: Guptas Granted Citizenship Due to ‘Investments, Social Partnerships’

Home Affairs Minister Hlengiwe Mkhize said the Guptas were granted citizenship based on business investments and social partnerships with 75 North West schools, among other things. Mkhize was replying to EFF MP Hlengiwe Hlophe’s parliamentary question. Hlophe had asked what […]


Uganda: Government to roll out dual citizenship registration in Diaspora

September 18, 2017 1:44 pm Published by Comments Off on Uganda: Government to roll out dual citizenship registration in Diaspora

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI |  The government through the Ministries of Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs will roll out the registration of Ugandans living in the diaspora for dual citizenship. This was revealed by the Rt. Hon Speaker Rebecca […]


Botswana: Teenager takes Gov’t to court over nationality

September 18, 2017 11:19 am Published by Comments Off on Botswana: Teenager takes Gov’t to court over nationality

By: UTLWANANG GASENNELWE Government of Botswana, through Ministry of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs has refused to issue a birth certificate of a minor child (names withheld) at the request of her father. The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Nationality, […]


Ghana: Une nouvelle carte d’identité dévoilée, enregistrement public dès novembre 2017

September 18, 2017 9:11 am Published by Comments Off on Ghana: Une nouvelle carte d’identité dévoilée, enregistrement public dès novembre 2017

Lundi 18 Septembre 2017 – L’Autorité nationale d’identification (NIA) au Ghana a dévoilé la confection d’une nouvelle Carte nationale d’identité (CNI) et a promis de lancer dans les tous prochains jours une campagne d’enregistrement pour les citoyens ghanéens. En conférence de presse le […]


Hundreds of millions of children ‘lack any record of their birth’

September 16, 2017 11:21 am Published by Comments Off on Hundreds of millions of children ‘lack any record of their birth’

“They could end up invisible,” says Joanne Dunn, a child protection specialist with UNICEF Would a 15-year-old girl be married off by her parents in violation of the law? Would another girl, who looks even younger, get justice after an alleged […]


Zimbabwe: Gukurahundi victims urged to make use of free registration exercise

September 15, 2017 12:04 pm Published by Comments Off on Zimbabwe: Gukurahundi victims urged to make use of free registration exercise

“Government has been forced to agree to issue national identity cards and birth certificates for free,” MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora said yesterday.“However, this is for a period of 90 days.“We urge all people, especially the so-called aliens to take advantage […]


Sénégal: Louga1 500 extraits de naissance remis gratuitement à des enfants

September 15, 2017 10:58 am Published by Comments Off on Sénégal: Louga1 500 extraits de naissance remis gratuitement à des enfants

La mairie de Louga vient de remettre gratuitement environ 1500 extraits de naissance à des enfants dont 470 élèves candidats à l’entrée en sixième. La cérémonie de remise des extraits s’est déroulée à l’hôtel de ville de Louga hier. Environ […]


Cameroun: la sensibilisation sur les risques d’apatridie se poursuit

September 15, 2017 10:49 am Published by Comments Off on Cameroun: la sensibilisation sur les risques d’apatridie se poursuit

L’apatridie est la situation d’une personne qu’aucun Etat ne reconnaît comme étant son citoyen. Autrement dit, un apatride est une personne dépourvue de nationalité et qui, de ce fait, ne bénéficie de la protection d’aucun Etat.  Des personnes se retrouvent exposées […]


Zimbabwe: Govt waives charges on civil documents

September 14, 2017 9:44 am Published by Comments Off on Zimbabwe: Govt waives charges on civil documents

Tendai Mugabe, Harare Bureau Government has waived all charges required to acquire civil documents such as identity cards or birth certificates during the 90-day registration blitz by the office of the Registrar General to allow more people to get the […]