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Citizenship in Africa newsletter, October 2015

October 20, 2015 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Citizenship in Africa newsletter, October 2015

In this issue: Challenging Discriminatory Legislation in Sudan Using African Legal Architecture Statelessness in Africa, with a Focus on the Gambia A Significant Step in Favour of Women’s Rights in Senegal How Lawyers for Human Rights is Fighting to End […]


Stateless Africans a step closer to citizenship thanks to UM doctoral student

October 19, 2015 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Stateless Africans a step closer to citizenship thanks to UM doctoral student

Thanks to an external doctoral student under the supervision of professor René de Groot at Maastricht University, the future is looking a little bit brighter for the millions of Africans living without an official nationality. On 20 October, British scholar […]


Libya: The Forgotten War of the Tebu and Tuareg

October 15, 2015 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Libya: The Forgotten War of the Tebu and Tuareg

by Valérie Stocker In the midst of the Libyan desert, a thousand kilometers south of Tripoli, a war divides two communities that had been living a brotherly life until the post-revolutionary vortex carried away their friendship. The Tebu, an ethnic […]


Tanzania rolls out birth registration by mobile phone

October 14, 2015 1:46 pm Published by Comments Off on Tanzania rolls out birth registration by mobile phone

Government hopes to register about a million children under the age of five by the end of this year. Tanzania has launched a nationwide drive to help parents register their children’s births by mobile phone so the government can better […]


Home Affairs gets tough on late birth registrations

October 13, 2015 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Home Affairs gets tough on late birth registrations

The Department of Home Affairs wants to make late birth registrations more difficult so that it can weed out chancers, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Fatima Chohan said on Tuesday. Speaking during the home affairs briefing in Parliament, she said: […]


Communiqué: a Conférence consultative d’Afrique de l’Ouest sur e droit à la nationalité et l’apatridie : opportunités et défis

October 9, 2015 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Communiqué: a Conférence consultative d’Afrique de l’Ouest sur e droit à la nationalité et l’apatridie : opportunités et défis

La Conférence consultative d’Afrique de l’Ouest sur « le droit à la nationalité et l’apatridie : opportunités et défis », conjointement organisée par Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) et le Haut-Commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (UNHCR), s’est tenue à l’Hôtel […]


The West Africa Consultative Conference on ‘the Right to a Nationality and Statelessness

October 9, 2015 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on The West Africa Consultative Conference on ‘the Right to a Nationality and Statelessness

The West Africa Consultative Conference on ‘the Right to a Nationality and Statelessness: Challenges and Opportunities’, co-organised by Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was held at Ivotel Hotel in […]


Session budgétaire de l’Assemblée nationale

October 7, 2015 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Session budgétaire de l’Assemblée nationale

Le parlement va également examiner les projets de loi de ratification des ordonnances prises en vertu de l’habilitation législative accordée au gouvernement entre deux sessions. Ces ordonnances sont relatives, entre autres, à l’adhésion de notre pays à la convention relative […]


Gabon: Filiation d’Ali Bongo : Pierre Péan revient à la charge

October 6, 2015 9:02 am Published by Comments Off on Gabon: Filiation d’Ali Bongo : Pierre Péan revient à la charge

Publié par Stevie Mounombou Dans une interview à Echos du Nord, parue le 5 octobre courant, l’auteur de «Nouvelles affaires africaines – Mensonges et pillages au Gabon» dit détenir deux documents qui attestent de la filiation d’Ali Bongo. Pour lui, […]


Uganda: Centre for Public Interest Law & Salima Namusobya v. Attorney General

October 6, 2015 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Uganda: Centre for Public Interest Law & Salima Namusobya v. Attorney General

(Constitutional Petition 34 of 2010) [2015] UGCC 9 (Judgment of 06 October 2015) Introduction The petitioners seek the interpretation of the Constitution in the manner we shall set out below expressed in their own words. 1 (a) that Article 12(2)(c) […]


The value of dual citizenship for Africans

October 6, 2015 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on The value of dual citizenship for Africans

It is estimated that only around 1% of the world’s population have two or more passports, making dual citizenship an exclusive privilege. “No man is an island” is the theme of this year’s upcoming Investment Agenda, being held in Johannesburg […]


Nigeria: Army provides free medical service to 300 Bakassi IDPs

October 2, 2015 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Nigeria: Army provides free medical service to 300 Bakassi IDPs

No fewer than 300 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Bakassi local government area of Cross River on Friday benefited from the free medical outreach conducted by the 13 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Calabar. Brig.-Gen. Sani Mohammed, Commander of the Brigade, said […]