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Ethiopia lifted travel ban on 10,000 citizens

July 12, 2024 5:10 pm Published by Comments Off on Ethiopia lifted travel ban on 10,000 citizens

Ethiopia’s Immigration and Citizenship Service on Friday held a press conference with journalists in the capital Addis Ababa to highlight performance during the budget year. Selamawit Dawit, the Director, revealed a major change that has been undertaken this year. According […]


Malawi: ACB arrests eight immigration officers, two civilians in passport corruption scandal

July 11, 2024 9:45 pm Published by Comments Off on Malawi: ACB arrests eight immigration officers, two civilians in passport corruption scandal

Burnett Munthali LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-In a significant crackdown on corruption, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested eight immigration officers and two civilians involved in alleged corrupt practices related to the issuance of passports at the Lilongwe office of the Department of Immigration […]


Kenya: Citizenship Rights: The Quest for Identification

July 10, 2024 8:46 pm Published by Comments Off on Kenya: Citizenship Rights: The Quest for Identification

For certain communities in Kenya, citizenship is presented as an issue of ineligibility, and as a matter of national security rather than rights. By Fred Nasubo and David Ngira Civil rights organisations and community-based organisations in Kenya have disparaged the […]


Nigeria: AFRIDU Appeals for Citizenship to Descendants in Diaspora

July 9, 2024 3:49 pm Published by Comments Off on Nigeria: AFRIDU Appeals for Citizenship to Descendants in Diaspora

By Margaret Ebeshi, Abuja The African Diaspora Union (AFRIDU), has appealed to the Nigerian government to consider the option of granting citizenship for African Descendants who were victims of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja […]


En RDC, obtenir le certificat de nationalité se complique

July 3, 2024 6:15 pm Published by 1 Comment

Jean-Noël Ba-Mweze Pour lutter contre des “infiltrations massives”, la demande d’un certificat de nationalité devra notamment passer par le feu vert du renseignement congolais. En République démocratique du Congo, l’obtention du certificat de nationalité sera désormais conditionnée à un avis […]


Gabon launches new national ID system

July 1, 2024 6:05 pm Published by Comments Off on Gabon launches new national ID system

By Ayang Macdonald After more than a decade of waiting, Gabonese will now be able to apply for and obtain a national digital ID card. The identity credential, known officially as the National Electronic Identity Card (CNIE), was launched last […]


South Africa: ‘Disregard for human rights’ – Frozen IDs still not unblocked by home affairs

June 29, 2024 8:08 am Published by Comments Off on South Africa: ‘Disregard for human rights’ – Frozen IDs still not unblocked by home affairs

South Africa’s Home Affairs fails court order, leaving 700,000 IDs blocked amid fraud suspicions unresolved. By Masoka Dube The department of home affairs (DHA) has failed to implement a court ruling instructing it to release some of the identity documents […]


Identification System in Benin: Increasing Access to Services

June 26, 2024 7:20 pm Published by Comments Off on Identification System in Benin: Increasing Access to Services

By Caroline Tassot & Luis Iñaki Alberro In 2017, a quarter of Benin’s population was without a birth certificate, and less than half had a national identity card (NIC), with the figure for women even lower at 37%. Among those […]


Tanzania: Written Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Bill 2024

June 26, 2024 5:39 pm Published by Comments Off on Tanzania: Written Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Bill 2024

Amendments to the Immigration Act providing for a “special status” to be granted to members of the Tanzanian non-citizen diaspora (see parts V & VI). Download: Tanzania Written Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Bill 2024


Réforme constitutionnelle : l’Algérie aussi vise ses binationaux

June 26, 2024 9:10 am Published by Comments Off on Réforme constitutionnelle : l’Algérie aussi vise ses binationaux

Par Lakhdar Belaid La question des binationaux revient dans le débat politique. Originaire du Valenciennois, l’historien Nedjib Sidi Moussa rappelle que l’Algérie les exclut déjà de postes stratégiques. Et il est impossible, pour une personne née algérienne de renoncer à […]