April 20, 2016 5:35 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
58th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights: Intersession Report of Mrs Maya Sahli-Fadel: Commissioner/Special Rapporteur on Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Internally Displaced Persons and Migrants in Africa Paragraphs 33 to 38 report on the Special Rapporteur’s […]
April 15, 2016 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Replaces the 2005 nationality law. Among other changes, the 2016 law provides that those attributed citizenship by the 1975 and 1984 nationality laws shall be considered citizens for the purposes of the present law, and provides new conditions for naturalization. […]
April 14, 2016 3:14 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Silverbird chairman, Ben Murray Bruce has won the court case challenging his right to occupy the office of a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, having sworn to an oath of allegiance to the United States of America. The […]
April 14, 2016 7:22 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
By: Gashegu Muramira Rwanda’s High Commissioner to Uganda Frank Mugambage yesterday said that government is yet to get an official communication regarding Rwandan citizens holding Uganda National Identity Cards. Mugambage’s remarks come following statements made over the weekend by Uganda’s […]
April 1, 2016 10:44 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
This report was prepared in the context of the Identification for Development (ID4D) initiative, the World Bank Group’s cross-departmental effort to support progress towards identification systems using 21st century solutions. Download from World Bank website.
April 1, 2016 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) represents a couple who are asking the Department of Home Affairs to register their two children and provide them with the children’s birth certificates. The couple approached the LRC after they were unable to register […]
April 1, 2016 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Reports on the first anniversary of the Abidjan Declaration to end statelessness in West Africa, as well as a meeting of the Migration Dialogue for Southern Africa and a January 2016 Memorandum of Understanding between the Southern Africa Trade Union […]
March 26, 2016 3:18 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Rwanda is planning to put some strict restrictions on Congolese nationals and also carry out an inspection to find out and get whoever that owns the Rwanda National ID’s in an illegal manner since this act puts at risk the […]
March 26, 2016 2:36 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Daniel S. Ntwari In Summary A report by the Rwandan parliament on refugees status 2014/15 shows that some Congolese refugees illegally acquired Rwandan IDs and some of them still hold on to their Congolese national IDs which they use […]
March 23, 2016 5:11 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
A total of 38 foreigners from various countries have naturalised as Ghanaians effective Wednesday. The 38, who are from Britain, Lebanon, the United States, Spain and other African countries, were each issued with a certificate of naturalisation by the Accra […]
March 23, 2016 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Les Guinéens n’en peuvent plus de la pénurie des cartes d’identité nationales. Elles sont introuvables dans tout le pays. L’obtention de ce document est tout simplement impossible aujourd’hui en Guinée. A cela, il faut ajouter la crise chronique liée à […]
March 22, 2016 2:06 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Complaint relating to Tanzania’s expulsion of alleged Rwandan and Burundian immigrants in August-September 2013. — 1. This is a Reference filed by the East African Law Society (hereinafter referred to as the “Applicant”), which is the apex regional Bar Association […]
