By Kudzai Mazvarirwofa Many rural children in Zimbabwe are destined for poverty because they lack birth certificates or other identity documents and thus can’t take national exams in grade seven that would allow them to continue in school. There are […]
Doctoral dissertation by Anne Christine Fruge Abstract: Many countries in Africa are embroiled in heated debates over who belongs where. Sometimes insider/outsider debates lead to localized skirmishes, but other times they turn into minor conflict or even war. How do […]
«Statelessness Impact on Africa’s Development and the Need for its Eradication» undated: approx. 2017 Conclusion: 24. By opting to have a protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Specific Aspects of the Right to Nationality […]
« Je ne connais pas ma nationalité. Je sais où je suis né. Mais est-ce que je viens du Burkina Faso ? Est-ce que je viens de Côte d’Ivoire ? »Ali n’a jamais été enregistré à la naissance. Il n’a plus aucun contact avec […]
This report assesses the Malagasy identity management system in the context of the government’s ongoing efforts to modernize the public sector, specifically pinpointing the challenges and needs of the functional registers for trusted verification of identities and analyzing the role […]
Executive summary In the absence of a birth certificate, more than 6 million Burkinabe (34.5 per cent of the population) are unable to produce a proof of their identity. Lack of civil registration cuts citizens from fundamental rights, such as […]
Updated version at Kenyalaw.org: http://kenyalaw.org:8181/exist/kenyalex/sublegview.xql?subleg=No.%2012%20of%202011
In 2014, the Global Campaign #IBelong was launched with the aim of wiping out statelessness by 2024. Since then, members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have strongly committed to end this plight in the region. The […]
Legal Notice L.N. 208/2016 1.These Regulations may be cited as the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration (Amendment) Regulations, 2016. 2.Regulation 10 of the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Regulations, 2012, is amended by inserting the following new paragraph immediately after paragraph (2)- […]
Thirty-four members of the African-Caribbean diaspora in the country have been granted Ghanaian citizenship following the approval of the President John Dramani Mahama. At a ceremony in Accra yesterday to formalise the process, the 37 people were made to swear […]
Includes information about a November 2016 SADC Parliamentary Forum resolution “On the Prevention of Statelessness and the Protection of Stateless Persons in the SADC Region”, the grant of citizenship to members of the stateless Makonde community in Kenya, as well […]
By Chineme Okafor Abuja — The West African Civil Society Forum (WACSOF) has said that by virtue of Nigeria’s population and emergence of insurgency in the North East in 2009, the country currently contributes more to the 750,000 people that […]