More South Africans are joining secondary citizenship investment programmes as they seek alternatives to living or studying in SA. Numerous South Africans have paid hundreds of thousands of rand to attain citizenship of Malta or other countries in order to […]
Government’s strategy to interest Ugandans working and living abroad to invest in their country through diaspora bond has hit a snag. The system, which already succeeded in Ethiopia, once in place, was meant to help Uganda cut on donor funds. […]
By Ferenc David Marko in Journal of East African Studies, Volume 9, 2015 – Issue 4, pp.669-684 Abstract In 2011, two days prior to its declaration of independence, South Sudan adopted a new nationality act and set up a bureaucracy […]
The Interior Ministry has formed a task force to address concerns raised by youth in Garissa County in getting national identity cards after their fingerprints appeared in the refugees database. Garissa County Commissioner James Kianda said the task force formed […]
Free movement of persons, goods, inauguration of Biometric Identity Cards and integration of West Africa countries begin on Jan. 1, 2016. President of ECOWAS Commission, Ambassador Kadré Ouedraogo, said this at the end of 48th Ordinary Session of Authority of […]
Includes information about a meeting held in South Africa by UNHCR and the Inter-Parliamentary Union on “Ensuring Everyone’s Right to a Nationality: The Role of Parliaments in Ending and Preventing Statelessness”; a workshop jointly organized by International Organization for Migration […]
The members of the Parliament of Mali gathered on Wednesday 16 December to adopt the texts on the accession to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Mali […]
Citizens from East Africa will begin travelling with one passport globally from next year as the East African Community (EAC) finally launches a common passport. The common passport, which has been in development for five years, is set to replace […]
I am very happy to introduce and welcome you to yet another edition of the East African Civil Society Organizations’ Forum (EACSOF) E-newsletter. In this newsletter, we bring you news about various developments during the period of September to December […]
Our Statelessness Short Courses offer a 1-week intensive learning programme for professionals on statelessness and related issues. The next regional edition of the short course will focus on Africa and be held from 18 – 22 April 2016. It will […]
Among the clauses Parliament passed last Friday was dual citizenship. This clause has been hailed as historical because it now means Zambians in the diaspora can acquire dual citizenship. The passing of this clause is expected to spawn a lot […]
The continued cases of foreigners acquiring Rwandan national identity cards illegitimately has pushed the National Identity Authority (NIA) to tighten its system to nab culprits. However, the authority’s purge on identity fraudsters has reportedly victimised even those who acquired IDs […]