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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
By Bronwen Manby In January 2011, after years of civil war, the people of South Sudan voted overwhelmingly for separation from the Republic of Sudan. The Republic of South Sudan obtained its independence six months later, on 9 July 2011. […]
By Julius N. Uma May 31, 2012 (JUBA) – As talks between Sudan and South Sudan got underway on Tuesday US-based Refugees International has recommended that both parties make the status of each other’s citizens a priority. Refugees International (RI), […]
As the newest nation in the world, the Republic of South Sudan (RoSS) is undertaking the monumental task of building a nation state. Creating a functioning government would bean epic challenge for any country, but it is even greater for […]
South Sudan has asked its public institutions, non-governmental organisations and businesses operating in the country to sack Sudanese nationals. The decision followed a May 26 circular issued by the Ministry of Labour, Public Service and Human Resource Development to put […]
SEBHA/OUBARI/MURZUQ, 24 May 2012 (IRIN) – Since Muammar Gaddafi’s fall seven months ago, Libya’s non-Arab minorities, including an estimated 250,000 Tuaregs, have begun more vehemently to insist on their rights. “Gaddafi’s policy was ‘keep your dog hungry so that he […]
by Prof. Charles Kambanda 1. Whether or no the State retains absolute ownership of an individual’s passport There are some things the generality of which the State owns. These include citizenship, passport and wealth. However, when the State grants any […]
By Salma El Wardany Nimuli struggled to rise from a rope bed to greet pastor James Mading Bui at an Episcopal church where she lives in a suburb of Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, waiting to travel back home to the newly […]
Asare v. Attorney General (J1/6/2011) [2012] GHASC 31 Holding that additional restrictions on public office for dual citizens provided in legislation are constitutional: DR. DATE-BAH, J. S. C: ‘This case raises intriguing general questions as to the constitutionality of new […]
By Lloyd Msipa Various opinions are doing the rounds on the internet and other forms of media with regard to the issue of dual citizenship in Zimbabwe under the new draft Constitution should it become law. This is in light […]