Author Archives for Bronwen Manby

Le Haut-Commissariat pour les réfugiés en guerre contre l’apatridie dans l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun

September 11, 2017 1:25 am Published by Comments Off on Le Haut-Commissariat pour les réfugiés en guerre contre l’apatridie dans l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun

(Investir au Cameroun) – Le Haut-Commissariat pour les réfugiés (HCR), à travers sa sous-délégation à Maroua, a tenu du 7 au 8 septembre, des sessions de formation sur la prévention de l’apatridie à l’intention des autorités administratives, judiciaires et de […]


Diakalidia Konaté, directeur général de l’Oni: ” L’acte d’état civil est l’acte fondateur de l’identité d’un individu “

September 10, 2017 1:16 pm Published by Comments Off on Diakalidia Konaté, directeur général de l’Oni: ” L’acte d’état civil est l’acte fondateur de l’identité d’un individu “

Qu’est-ce que l’état civil ? C’est la situation de la personne dans la famille et la société, résultat d’une procédure écrite d’identification administrative. Il désigne également le service public chargé de dresser les actes constatant ces faits, notamment les actes […]


Cameroun – Gestion des réfugiés: Le HCR forme les autorités administratives, judiciaires et de police de l’Extrême-Nord sur la prévention de l’apatridie

September 9, 2017 2:04 pm Published by Comments Off on Cameroun – Gestion des réfugiés: Le HCR forme les autorités administratives, judiciaires et de police de l’Extrême-Nord sur la prévention de l’apatridie

Le HCR Cameroun, à travers sa Sous-délégation à Maroua, a tenu les 7 et 8 septembre 2017, un atelier de formation sur la Prévention de l’Apatridie à l’intention des autorités administratives, judiciaires et de police de la Région de l’Extrême-Nord. […]


Between rootedness and rootlessness: How sedentarist and nomadic metaphysics simultaneously challenge and reinforce (dual) citizenship claims for Liberia

September 8, 2017 9:33 am Published by Comments Off on Between rootedness and rootlessness: How sedentarist and nomadic metaphysics simultaneously challenge and reinforce (dual) citizenship claims for Liberia

By Robtel Neajai Pailey Abstract Within the last decade alone, large-scale emigration has emboldened approximately half of all African states to adopt constitutional reforms granting dual citizenship, with some provisions more limited than others. Given Liberia’s post-war prominence in the […]


South Africa: Miriam Ali and others vs Minister of Home Affairs

September 7, 2017 7:26 pm Published by Comments Off on South Africa: Miriam Ali and others vs Minister of Home Affairs

Case number 15566/2016 The Minister of Home Affairs is ordered to provide for a procedure enabling an application for acquisition of citizenship based on birth and residence in the territory until majority, as provided in the South African Citizenship Act. […]


Court rules Citizen­ship Act applies retrospectively to children born in South Africa to foreign parents

September 7, 2017 2:27 pm Published by Comments Off on Court rules Citizen­ship Act applies retrospectively to children born in South Africa to foreign parents

In the West­ern Cape High Court today, 07 Sep­tem­ber 2017, a judg­ment was handed down which affirms that chil­dren who were born in South Africa to for­eign par­ents are enti­tled to apply for cit­i­zen­ship, through the South African Cit­i­zen­ship Act […]


Zimbabwe: RG’s Office Rolls Out Mobile Registration

September 7, 2017 9:11 am Published by Comments Off on Zimbabwe: RG’s Office Rolls Out Mobile Registration

The Registrar General’s Office has begun the national mobile registration for people to acquire identity documents as part of preparations for next year’s harmonised elections.The department is focusing on registration of national identity cards, births and deaths certificates. The mobile […]


Zimbabwe: Metal IDs acceptable during BVR exercise

September 5, 2017 6:02 pm Published by Comments Off on Zimbabwe: Metal IDs acceptable during BVR exercise

Staff Writer HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said metal identity cards will be accepted during the biometric voter registration (BVR) exercise. This comes after Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede said only holders of machine readable plastic identity cards will […]


Kenya Goes It Alone On e-Passport as Neighbours Dither

September 5, 2017 5:39 pm Published by Comments Off on Kenya Goes It Alone On e-Passport as Neighbours Dither

By Victor Kiprop Kenya has rolled out the East African Community (EAC) electronic passport, 17 years after discussions to develop the document began. The new generation e-passport, which conforms to the international civil standards, replaces the existing national document, set […]


Statelessness, space, security: Somalis in Kenya

September 5, 2017 2:34 pm Published by Comments Off on Statelessness, space, security: Somalis in Kenya

By Oscar Gakuo Mwangi In this article, I argue that statelessness in the Kenyan context needs to be seen as simultaneously a psychological and a physical condition determined by spatial-political boundaries rather than legal ones. This challenges the traditional approach […]


Si un bébé naît dans un avion en plein vol, de quelle nationalité est-il ? Voici la bonne réponse !

September 4, 2017 10:27 am Published by Comments Off on Si un bébé naît dans un avion en plein vol, de quelle nationalité est-il ? Voici la bonne réponse !

En août 2017, une femme a accouché durant un vol entre Tunis et Nice. Un fait rare, mais qui invite à se poser la question suivante : quelle est la nationalité d’un bébé né en vol ?  Comme le rapporte Le […]


South Africa: Home Affairs adamant girl cannot get ID

September 3, 2017 5:46 pm Published by Comments Off on South Africa: Home Affairs adamant girl cannot get ID

The Department of Home Affairs is adamant that a Port Elizabeth couple should have their four-year-old foster child registered as a citizen of Lesotho if they want to adopt her – insisting that she would not be recognised as a […]