Most Bedouins from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula never think to register their marriages. A palm leaf from the father of the bride to the groom is enough to mark the union; families and tribal elders stand witness to the ceremony. But […]
These Guidelines are aimed at assisting States to ensure that stateless persons receive such status in their jurisdictions. They address the treatment of persons determined to be stateless by a State under the 1954 Convention, the position of individuals awaiting […]
The Registrar General has announced that marriages that were solemnised by at least 716 marriage officers that have gone underground face cancellation while mass weddings have been banned. External file: Zimbabwe bans mass weddings
The daughter of Col. Patrick Karegeya, the exiled former Rwandan spymaster, is stranded in Kampala after Kigali stripped her of citizenship and Uganda hurriedly withdrew an alternative passport a week after issuing it. Portia Mbabazi Karegeya, 23, told this newspaper […]
LSE’s Katy Long argues that the West African model which allows refugees to become migrants is one way to end protracted refugees situations. There is a poster (see below) in my office at LSE. A shot of subway graffiti reading […]
By Charles Gichane NAIROBI, Kenya, July 11 – A Kenyan immigration lawyer based in the United States has cautioned Kenyans who are re-applying for their Kenyan citizenship and hence becoming dual citizens, to tread carefully and ensure they do not […]
By Sarnata Reynolds, Refugees International One year after South Sudan gained independence, many southerners are still waiting for the slips of paper that will prove they are citizens of the world’s newest nation and grant them access to employment, a […]
By Tichaona Sibanda For the first time in Zimbabwe’s history the new constitution will allow dual citizenship, a situation that could be capitalized on by people living in the Diaspora, to push for their right to vote in the next […]
Amends the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act, 2011 (No. 12 of 2011) as follows: S.4(2) Delete the word “undesirable” appearing in paragraph (f) and substitute therefor the word “inadmissible”. S.13(4) Delete the introductory portion and substitute therefor the following: “A […]
Journal officiel, 2012-07-06, n° 33 – Numéro spécial, pp. 6-72 Adoptée par l’Assemblée 29 juin 2012 Télécharger: https://legitogo.gouv.tg/be/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Pages-from-jo_2012-033Special-2.pdf Article 149 : Le divorce n’a aucun effet sur les droits acquis de l’homme ou de la femme en matière de nationalité […]
The text was further amended in 2014. Download file: Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act No12_of_2011 Amended 2012
U.N. rights chief Navi Pillay warned Tuesday that a half million South Sudanese in Sudan risk being left in a stateless limbo because of a nationality battle between the two countries. Link to Al Arabiya article: http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/07/04/224367.html