May 15, 2017 5:12 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Laura Bingham This April, a mobile registration team was hard at work again in the Kibera neighborhood of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. For five days, a team offered people help in securing national identity cards—a document that also serves […]
May 14, 2017 1:33 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Lors d’une conférence ministérielle le 9 mai à Banjul la capitale de la Gambie, la Communauté économique des Etats d’Afrique de l’Ouest (Cédéao) a adopté un plan d’élimination de l’apatridie. En Afrique de l’Ouest, l’apatridie concerne particulièrement la Côte d’Ivoire, où vivent […]
May 13, 2017 12:14 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Le président de la Commission parlementaire des droits, des libertés et des relations extérieures , Imed Khemiri a déclaré au journal « Assabah » dans son édition de ce samedi 13 mai que la commission a enfin adopté le projet de la […]
May 12, 2017 11:57 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Abidjan – Au total 1.165.325 élèves du primaire dépourvus d’acte d’état-civil, seront bientôt en possession de leur jugements supplétifs d’actes de naissance, grâce à une opération de déclaration de naissance initiée par le gouvernement et conduit par les ministères de […]
May 12, 2017 8:59 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
HARARE, May 12 (Xinhua) — The government is pushing for the abolition of dual citizenship as enshrined under Zimbabwe’s constitution, arguing that it poses a number of security challenges, state media reported Friday. Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede told a parliamentary caucus […]
May 11, 2017 12:34 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Ms Marie-Pierre Poirier, Regional Director, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), says about 40 million children under five are unregistered in the West African region. Poirier made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday […]
May 10, 2017 10:59 am
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HON. SEN. TIMVEOS: I move the motion standing in my name: That this House; RECALLING ongoing efforts of the African Union to move towards the adoption of a Draft “Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on […]
May 10, 2017 8:11 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
La lutte contre l’apatridie a fait un pas de plus mardi 9 mai en Afrique de l’Ouest. Un sommet réunissait à Banjul le Haut-commissariat aux réfugiés (HCR), aussi en charge de l’apatridie, et les Etats de la Cédéao. Après la […]
May 10, 2017 7:51 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Les organisations de la Société Civile qui œuvrent pour la transparence et la lutte contre la corruption dénoncent et condamnent les conditions d’octroi du marché public pour la délivrance des passeports congolais, le qualifiant de “contrat léonin” avec l’implication d’un […]
May 9, 2017 9:18 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
The ECOWAS Plan of Action on Eradication of Statelessness 2017-2024 is based on the commitments and recommendations made in the Abidjan Declaration, the Conclusions and Recommendations and in the Communiqué, and therefore strictly follows the spirit of Abidjan. The Plan […]
May 9, 2017 4:44 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
ECOWAS Member States adopt an ambitious regional Plan of Action to end statelessness in West Africa, the first region in the world to do so. Banjul, the Gambia: Ministers of Interior and Justice of the Member States of the Economic […]
May 9, 2017 4:16 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Athuman Mtulya Dodoma — The government revealed that 110 foreign nationals received Tanzania citizenship in a period between July 2016 and March 2017. This was revealed by minister for home affairs Mr Mwigulu Nchemba on Tuesday as he was […]