September 3, 2017 1:32 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Sebidde Kiryowa Dual citizenship has been provided for in the Ugandan constitution since 2009 following the enactment of the Uganda Citizenship and Immigration Control (Amendments) Act 2009. However, to attain it, Ugandans living abroad had to go through a […]
September 2, 2017 6:00 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Tendai Kamhungira HARARE – Opposition parties have petitioned the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), challenging Registrar-General (RG) Tobaiwa Mudede’s pronouncement that metal identity cards (IDs) will not be used in the voter registration process ahead of the 2018 elections. Coalescing under […]
September 1, 2017 8:30 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
The present Id-M system in Niger is fragmented and fails to take advantage of opportunities to facilitate citizens’ interaction with the public sector in instances where authentication or verification of identities is required. Civil registration and civil identification are managed […]
September 1, 2017 4:00 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
After flight from civil war, Syrians describe difficult life in Mauritania, telling MEE ‘we feel like outsiders’ despite local sympathy By Jillian D’Amours NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania – Mohamad Mudar Oulabie knows he doesn’t have many choices. But after almost five years […]
August 31, 2017 5:55 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Fungi Kwaramba HARARE – Government’s announcement that it is phasing out metal identity cards (IDs) has caused panic among civic society and the opposition movement as they fear this could displace millions of voters ahead of next year’s eagerly-awaited […]
August 31, 2017 5:41 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Laura Angela Bagnetto For Idrissa Haroum, the decision was pure and simple– he wants to live where he is accepted. The 55-year-old Muslim from the Central African Republic says that he was called a Chadian in his own country. […]
August 31, 2017 5:36 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Download: Angola Lei 20-17 de 31 de Agosto Alteração do BI
August 31, 2017 9:07 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Download: Concept Note: AUC-DPA-Concept-Note-Statelessness-Mauritius-Sept2017 Programme (English): AUC Program Statelessness meeting Mauritius-Sept2017 Programme (French): AUC Program Statelessness meeting Mauritius-Sept2017-FR
August 29, 2017 11:46 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
A mobile registration exercise for Zimbabwean citizens kicks off next Monday the 4th of September. In a media briefing in the capital this morning, Registrar General (RG), Mr Tobaiwa Mudede said the exercise entails the issuing out of birth and […]
August 29, 2017 11:36 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
ADDIS ABABA – Getting an identity card – a practice often taken for granted in many parts of the world – is extremely rare in in Ethiopia, where, according to UNICEF data, only 7% of children is registered on national […]
August 28, 2017 7:40 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
La Commission d’enquête parlementaire sur la loi relative à la Citoyenneté économique veut recueillir les témoignages du président Azali, en sa qualité d’ancien et actuel chef de l’Etat, sur les enjeux d’ordre sécuritaire, financière et économique liés à la mise […]
August 28, 2017 1:04 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Provides among other things that: Section 7 of the Act is amended in subsection (1) by inserting immediately after subsection (3), the following new subsection: “(4) The registrar may refuse to register an applicant who fails to provide the necessary […]