June 1, 2015 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Par Dr Boubacar Hassane, Consultant Résumé: Les attaques armées qui se sont intensifiées au cours des dernières années dans le Nord est du Nigéria ont entrainé le déplacement de dizaines de milliers de personnes vers la région frontalière de Diffa […]
May 29, 2015 7:34 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Le code de la nationalité est la loi N° 79-12 adoptée le 12 décembre 1979. Peu connue, elle a fait l’objet de tant de transgressions, notamment à propos de la loi de la citoyenneté économique, et d’interprétations parfois légères dans […]
May 29, 2015 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
In a village on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital Nairobi, 53-year-old Margaret Maposa embroiders seat covers for a customer, sitting with her niece Elizabeth Moyo, who is weaving a multi-colored basket. Both women wear white headscarves, subtle markers of their […]
May 29, 2015 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
The cost for a proposed new passport has sparked public anger in Sierra Leone after the Immigration department announced it was preparing a new, biometric passport to replace the current one with a cost of Le500, 000 (US$100).Many say the […]
May 28, 2015 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
The UN has proposed that providing a “legal identity for all” is one of its Sustainable Development Goals, yet proposes to measure progress against this goal simply in terms of birth registration rates. Edgar A. Whitley and Bronwen Manby explore […]
May 27, 2015 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
The accounting officer in the Ministry of labour and Home Affairs Pearl Matome on Wednesday said more Zimbabweans have been given Botswana citizenship than other foreigners.Appearing before the Botswana parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, Matome said of the 15,000 people who […]
May 27, 2015 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
With enough money you can buy anything, even a foreign citizenship. And for the outrageously wealthy, the power to move and live wherever they like is worth paying for. “For families with means, it’s really just about giving yourself and […]
May 26, 2015 5:38 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
A l’origine de la controverse qui dure depuis des mois à Libreville, le livre (paru en octobre 2014) du journaliste français Pierre Péan, Nouvelles affaires africaines, selon lequel M. Bongo aurait falsifié son acte de naissance et serait en fait […]
May 26, 2015 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
With its continued concerted effort to maintain strong links and instil interests among those in diaspora about their homeland, the Malawi government is to hold talks with representatives of the Malawi community through the Malawi Diaspora in Europe from 28 […]
May 25, 2015 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Similarly, not all Burundians living in Tanzania were convinced “citizenship” would solve their problems of social integration or protection in the country. Had they not been citizens in 1970s or in the 1990s or the early 2000s when civil war […]
May 22, 2015 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Sixty-seven years after the Arab-Israeli War, 3,000 Palestinians remain forgotten and stateless in rural Egypt. By Emily Crane JEZIRET EL FADL, Egypt—Ghafra dreams of rain. Not the brief bursts of precipitation that mix with the desert dust here a few […]
May 22, 2015 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
The government and Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Wednesday, May 20th approved and endorsed the ‘Abidjan Ministerial Declaration’ on the eradication of statelessness. The declaration was endorsed at the 47th Ordinary Summit of […]
