By NELSON DIRENG The Speaker of the National Assembly Margaret Nasha came to President Ian Khama’s rescue as opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) demanded to know whether it is true that Khama enjoys dual citizenship – these being Botswana and […]
By Mary Harper Do you know what the Kenyan police call Somalis?” asked a successful Somali businessman from his office in downtown Nairobi. “They call us ATM machines. That’s because the only way we can navigate the situation here is […]
By Gianluca P. Parolin, EUDO Citizenship expert for Egypt Arab state authorities have quite consistently refused to naturalise Palestinians or their offspring in a move to allegedly protect Palestinian identity from vanishing with full integration in the host countries, often against […]
By Laura Bingham The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) will meet for its 18th Session in Algiers next week (November 27 – December 1, 2011), providing an important occasion for states, civil […]
LAWRENCE SERETSE Correspondent Thousands of Batswana who have taken their citizenship for granted until now are reeling in shock after learning that they are foreigners; that is, they are not recognised as Batswana. The problem is that many of them […]
Contestation de l’éligibilité du sieur Tioté Souhaluo aux élections législatives de décembre 2011. Telecharger: Cote dIvoire Decision CI-2001-EL-54 du 17 novembre 2011 – Confirmation de perte de la nationalité
By Frank Jacobs Borderlines If it bleeds, it leads, goes the journalistic dictum. But the reverse is also true, which is why, through all the millions of words published in the last nine months about Libya, you’ve never heard of […]
By Bronwen Manby This background paper was commissioned by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for a Regional Conference on Statelessness in Southern Africa, which was hosted by UNHCR in Mbombela (Nelspruit), South Africa 1-3 November 2011. The […]
Dahir n° 1-58-250 du 21 safar 1378 (6 septembre 1958) portant code de la nationalité marocaine Version consolidée en date du 26 octobre 2011 — tel que modifié par les textes suivants Dahir n° 1-11-170 du 27 kaada 1432 (25 […]
By Sebastian Kohn Over the last couple of decades, in many places around the world, the manipulation of citizenship laws for political purposes has been a popular way of excluding opponents and silencing critics. Even though international law provides strong […]
« La Société mauritanienne est traversée en profondeur par des pratiques persistantes de discrimination de nature ethnique et raciale, ancrées dans les tradition culturelles et prégnantes dans les structures sociales et les mentalités. Des facteurs récurrents dans la société mauritanienne […]
By Laura Bingham, legal officer for the equality/citizenship issue area of the Open Society Justice Initiative. A decision by an African regional children’s rights committee delivered on behalf of tens of thousands of children in Kenya who grow up without […]