By Magdi El Gizouli Today, 8 April, is the date set by the Sudanese authorities as a final deadline for the South Sudanese in the country to ‘regularise’ their resident status as foreigners or face unidentified punitive measures. According to […]
These Guidelines address procedures that are aimed specifically, if not exclusively, at determining whether an individual is stateless. Moreover, the focus of these Guidelines is on the concept of stateless person as defined in the 1954 Convention and on the […]
By Chidi Odinkalu The peninsula of Bakassi has long been the subject of a territorial dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria. Now it shows what can happen to people when control over the territory where they live shifts from one country […]
By Kusali Kubwalo LILONGWE, Malawi, 30 March 2012 – This week, Malawi celebrates the start of a universal and compulsory birth registration process. At a ceremony marking the event, Nicholas Dausi, Deputy Minister in the Office of the President and […]
La nationalité marocaine est réputée comme étant l’une des plus difficiles à avoir dans le monde. Mais un citoyen marocain peut-il y renoncer facilement ? La réponse est non : un Marocain reste marocain à vie, qu’il le veuille ou […]
Statement of Mr. François Reybet-Degat, Acting representative, UNHCR Sudan to the Parliamentary Hearing on “Relations with the State of South Sudan” 28 March 2012 In English: UNHCR statement to Parliament on nationality In Arabic: UNHCR Statement to parliament on nationality
MASERU — The National Security Service (NSS) boss and the acting police commissioner are expected to appear before the High Court on Monday to show why they should not be restrained from stalking an Ethiopian refugee. Acting High Court judge […]
By Ahamefula Ogbu In a bid to check the influx of illegal immigrants into the country, the Federal Government Wednesday said it had uncovered 1,479 illegal crossing points, which had prompted government to erect border plazas at the 84 legal […]
The “Four Freedoms” agreement between Sudan and South Sudan, establishing rights for the nationals of one state in the other to freedom of movement, residence, economic activity and to acquire and dispose of property. Download file: here
By Kusali Kubwalo Lilongwe, 27th March, 2012 – Malawi today launched the issuance of birth registration reports marking the start of a process that will eventually make birth registration universal and compulsory in Malawi. At a ceremony marking the launch, […]
CRC/C/TGO/CO/3-4 Birth registration 39. The Committee welcomes the efforts made by the State party to improve birth registration, including the adoption in 2009 of Act No. 2009-10 on the organization of the civil registry system. The Committee is however concerned […]
MASERU — An Ethiopian refugee has been denied Lesotho citizenship after he was accused of human trafficking and money laundering, the Lesotho Times heard this week. Eyob Belay Eyaya Asemie, 34, said he was due to be sworn-in as a […]