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500,000 at risk in Sudan nationality deadlock

July 3, 2012 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on 500,000 at risk in Sudan nationality deadlock

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


23,000 Angolans back home as refugee status ends

June 30, 2012 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on 23,000 Angolans back home as refugee status ends

The United Nations refugee agency said a total of 23,000 Angolans have been repatriated since last year from neighbouring countries where their refugee status officially ended on Saturday. “Since February 2011, 23,000 Angolans have returned to their country,” the UNHCR’s […]


Discrepancies between the International Legal Obligations and the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria relating to the Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness

June 29, 2012 6:22 pm Published by Comments Off on Discrepancies between the International Legal Obligations and the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria relating to the Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness

Submission to the Upper House of the National Assembly that highlights several provisions of the 1999 Constitution that increase the risk of statelessness, and makes recommendations for amendments, including safeguards against statelessness for children of unknown parents and the removal […]


Swaziland re-appoints controversial chief judge

June 25, 2012 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Swaziland re-appoints controversial chief judge

(MBABANE 25 June 2012)  The Swaziland government has renewed the contract of the country’s chief justice, who is a Lesotho national, saying there were no local judges suitable for the job, an official said on Monday. Michael Ramodibedi’s appointment comes […]


Uganda: Government plans naturalization of refugees

June 21, 2012 10:04 pm Published by Comments Off on Uganda: Government plans naturalization of refugees

The Ugandan government says it is in discussions to legalize and grant naturalization to thousands of refugees who fled into the country in the 1960s and 1990s, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. At an event in […]


Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Regulations 2012

June 15, 2012 9:14 am Published by Comments Off on Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Regulations 2012

LN 64/2012 as amended by LN 145/2014) Establishes procedures for citizenship, including application forms and fee schedule. Download: Kenya-Citizenship-Regulations-2012


Scores killed as Mai-Mai target Kinyarwanda speakers

June 12, 2012 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Scores killed as Mai-Mai target Kinyarwanda speakers

More than 100 people have been killed and thousands displaced in ethnically motivated massacres in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since mid-May, according to government officials. Bigembe Turikonkinko, the sector chief of Katoyi in North Kivu’s Masisi territory, has […]


Botswana: Marriages of convenience on the rise – Batshu

June 4, 2012 11:17 pm Published by Comments Off on Botswana: Marriages of convenience on the rise – Batshu

Marriages of convenience have become a common phenomenon in Botswana and if the nation is not careful, there could be serious consequences, Minister of Labour and Home Affairs Edwin Batshu has cautioned. By Bame Piet Speaking to the Monitor on […]


The Supreme Court’s Pronouncements on Dual Citizenship in Ghana

June 4, 2012 4:54 pm Published by Comments Off on The Supreme Court’s Pronouncements on Dual Citizenship in Ghana

S. Kwaku Asare The Supreme Court recently made several important pronouncements on dual citizenship that has statutory, regulatory, and travel implications. The pronouncements render inaccurate and obsolete information posted on the website of many of our embassies. I discuss the […]


Egypt: Citizenship Requirements at the Test of Presidential Elections

June 4, 2012 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Egypt: Citizenship Requirements at the Test of Presidential Elections

by Gianluca Parolin (EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert, American University of Cairo) Citizenship seems to have become the last frontier of political litigation in Egypt. It had been so even before the constitutional amendments approved in a national referendum in March 2011, […]


Making a first impression: An assessment of the decision of the Committee of Experts of the African Children’s Charter in the Nubian Children communication

June 1, 2012 9:16 pm Published by Comments Off on Making a first impression: An assessment of the decision of the Committee of Experts of the African Children’s Charter in the Nubian Children communication

Ebenezer Durojaye and Edmund Amarkwei Foley (2012) 2 AHRLJ 564-578 SUMMARY The article analyses the Nubian Children communication, the very first case to be finalised by the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. It […]