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Zimbabwe: NGO helps Matopo villagers access identity documents

August 18, 2017 9:23 am Published by Comments Off on Zimbabwe: NGO helps Matopo villagers access identity documents

Habakkuk Trust has held advocacy workshops to educate communities in Matopo district on how they can get identity particulars. BY SHARON SIBINDI Dumisani Nkomo, founder of the Trust, said they decided to roll out the programme because they had realised […]


Côte d’Ivoire: Apatridie: Un film institutionnel pour lutter contre le fléau

August 17, 2017 12:31 pm Published by Comments Off on Côte d’Ivoire: Apatridie: Un film institutionnel pour lutter contre le fléau

Le ministère des Affaires étrangères, à travers le Service d’aide et d’assistance aux réfugiés et apatrides (Saara), en collaboration avec le Haut-Commissariat des nations unies pour les réfugiés (Hcr), a organisé, le 16 août, au Plateau, la cérémonie de présentation […]


Nigeria: Use August meetings to boost birth registration —UNICEF

August 17, 2017 11:45 am Published by Comments Off on Nigeria: Use August meetings to boost birth registration —UNICEF

ENUGU—MOTHERS in the South-East geopolitical zone have been urged to use the opportunity of August meetings by women to boost their children’s birth registration. August-meeting Chief of Field Office, United Nations Childrens’ Fund, Unicef, Enugu, Dr. Ibrahim Conteh, gave  the […]


SADC: Communiqué and Plan of Action of 13th Civil Society Forum

August 16, 2017 3:44 pm Published by Comments Off on SADC: Communiqué and Plan of Action of 13th Civil Society Forum

14 – 16 August 2017 Informed by the theme of this 13th Southern Africa civil society forum on “building people’s organisations, securing our common future, consolidating our gains and confronting our challenges”, we adopt the following Plan of Action as […]


Mauritius to Host African Union Commission’s Experts Meetings

August 16, 2017 3:18 pm Published by Comments Off on Mauritius to Host African Union Commission’s Experts Meetings

Press Release The African Union Commission will hold the following two Experts Meetings in Mauritius during the period 28 August to 2 September 2017. The first Expert Meeting will focus on the implementation mechanism of the Draft Protocol on the […]


A Plea To End State-Endorsed Racism In Liberia

August 16, 2017 9:51 am Published by Comments Off on A Plea To End State-Endorsed Racism In Liberia

Opinion by Wynfred Russell The framers of our Constitution knew that time could blind us to certain truths and later generation can see the laws once thought necessary can only serve to oppress. It is the case with the ‘Nationality […]


South Africa: Not only Guptas got citizenship speeded up

August 15, 2017 4:08 pm Published by Comments Off on South Africa: Not only Guptas got citizenship speeded up

By Siyabonga Mkhwanazi Parliament – Home Affairs Minister Hlengiwe Mkhize has indicated that the Guptas are not the only family to have been given special treatment when they were granted early naturalisation in South Africa. In a list sent to […]


Big Read: A tribe, a nation, a people – or just Kenyans?

August 14, 2017 2:42 pm Published by Comments Off on Big Read: A tribe, a nation, a people – or just Kenyans?

By ZARINA PATEL and JILL GHAI A funny thing — funny peculiar, not funny ha ha — happened on Friday, July 21. The President issued something called a gazette notice. Headed ‘Presidential Proclamation’, it said it was a response to […]


Togo / Projet « Un rêve devenu réalité »: Existence juridique pour 50 enfants grâce à l’Ong « Togo-To-Togo »

August 11, 2017 1:50 pm Published by Comments Off on Togo / Projet « Un rêve devenu réalité »: Existence juridique pour 50 enfants grâce à l’Ong « Togo-To-Togo »

Jusque là, ils ne disposaient d’aucune pièce d’identité, même du plus élémentaire : l’acte de naissance. Ces 50 enfants des cantons de Gléi, de Katoré, d’Akparé et d’Atcha (dans la préfecture de l’Ogou) doivent finalement leur salut à l’ONG ‘’Togo-To-Togo’’ qui […]


The Abuja Action Statement on Protection in the Lake Chad Basin – One Year On

August 9, 2017 9:00 pm Published by Comments Off on The Abuja Action Statement on Protection in the Lake Chad Basin – One Year On

Adopted on 8 June 2016 by the Governments of Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger at the Regional Protection Dialogue on the crisis in the Lake Chad Basin, hosted by the Federal Government of Nigeria with the technical support of UNHCR. […]