This analysis was researched and written by the United States Institute of Peace. It is intended to analyze the gender aspects of the September 2012 Sudan-South Sudan agreements and make actionable recommendations for gender-sensitive implementation. Link to report on USIP […]
By Dele Ogbodo With barely two weeks to the expiration of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), ruling which ceded Bakassi Peninsular and other territories to Cameroun on October 10, 2002, the Senate, Wednesday unanimously rejected the ruling. Senate President, […]
11 minute video by Ugandan Senior Immigration Officer Marshall Alenyo on the rules for dual citizenship in Uganda.
by Joan Timoney It is very busy in New York these days as heads of state, ministers, senior government officials and civil society leaders gather for the 67th Session of the U.N. General Assembly. In conjunction with the General Assembly’s […]
By Femi Falana SAN THE contemporary boundary problems that exist between Nigeria and Cameroon particularly over the ownership and control of Bakassi Peninsula can be traced primarily to colonialism, the scramble for African territories and the creation of artificial boundaries […]
The applicant was born in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, on 15 April 1944. His mother Enid Marjorie Whitehead was also born in this country on 11 April 1917. She lived and died in Zimbabwe on 17 September 2000. The applicant’s […]
Le ministre de la Communication a annoncé qu’il a tourné la page du débat concernant sa double nationalité. « J’ai clos ce débat-là. Le moment où je sentirai la nécessité de faire une réaction, je le ferai. Maintenant, s’il y […]
Ramnik Shah, “Kenya’s citizenship laws revisited”, Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, Vol.26, No.3, 2012, pp.269-277. Abstract: In ‘Britain and Kenya’s citizenship law: a conflict of laws’ ((1992) Vol 6, No 4 IANL ) I questioned the legality of […]
Emma Lochery, “Rendering difference visible: The Kenyan state and its Somali citizens”, African Affairs, Vol.111, No.445, 2012, pp.615–639. Abstract: This article examines the history of Somalis in Kenya. It argues that the precarious citizenship status of Kenyan Somalis is rooted in […]
Durban, South Africa, 6-7 September 2012 15. We hereby resolve to: a. Continue our efforts to develop appropriate policies and strategies to reform and improve our CRVS systems, and to mainstream them in national development plans and programmes, taking into […]
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association, led by the notorious Jabulani Sibanda, have done ZANU PF’s bidding and rejected the draft Constitution. Sibanda said his association would, ‘resist any attempts to foist foreign ideas on the people.’ Link to […]
Pretoria – Some countries on the African continent don’t have national population registers, resulting in a situation where children are born, live their lives and die, without ever being recorded. It is this sort of situation that African ministers responsible […]