Author Archives for Bronwen Manby

Burkina Faso: Romuald Likibi, écrivain: « Les apatrides sont victimes d’une double injustice »

August 25, 2014 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Burkina Faso: Romuald Likibi, écrivain: « Les apatrides sont victimes d’une double injustice »

Romuald Likibi, docteur en sciences politiques à la faculté de droit de l’université Nancy II en France s’est engagé à travers l’écriture à promouvoir les droits humains. Sa dernière parution parle de l’apatridie. DANS cette interview ACCORDÉE à Sidwaya l’écrivain […]


Malawi needs proper homework on dual citizenship

August 20, 2014 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Malawi needs proper homework on dual citizenship

Some political and legal experts in the country have cautioned against rushing in passing the dual citizenship bill into law saying proper saying there are a number of crucial elements that must be debated and agreed upon. Malawians in diaspora […]


Malawi government should review and pass Dual Citizenship law

August 17, 2014 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Malawi government should review and pass Dual Citizenship law

While in Washington DC, during the USA-Africa Summit, President Peter Mutharika met with some Malawians residing in USA and among some of the development issues discussed was that of Dual Citizenship. Dual Citizenship allows people to belong to two countries. […]


Massive CA teams’ nod to dual citizenship

August 15, 2014 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Massive CA teams’ nod to dual citizenship

Most committees of the Constituent Assembly (CA) have nodded to dual citizenship, expressing, however, the need to have a law that will check any breach to national security. Read more.


CA committees recommend duo citizenship

August 15, 2014 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on CA committees recommend duo citizenship

Members of the Constituent Assembly (CA) have agreed that duo citizenship should be allowed but called for a comprehensive law to govern it citing national security concerns. Briefing reporters on Wednesday, most of all Committee Chairpersons said their members are […]


Angola: Atribuição da Nacionalidade com as regras alteradas

August 13, 2014 9:38 am Published by Comments Off on Angola: Atribuição da Nacionalidade com as regras alteradas

O Executivo quer mais exigência e fiscalização nos processos de concessão de nacionalidade no país, afirmou ontem o ministro da Justiça e dos Direitos Humanos, Rui Mangueira, durante a apresentação da proposta de Lei de Alteração à Lei da Nacionalidade, […]


Angola: AN aprova alteração à Lei da Nacionalidade

August 13, 2014 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Angola: AN aprova alteração à Lei da Nacionalidade

Luanda – A Proposta de Lei de Alteração à Lei nº 1/05, de 1 de Julho – Lei da Nacionalidade, proposta pelo titular do poder Executivo, foi aprovada nesta terça-feira, na Generalidade, pela Assembleia Nacional, em Luanda. Aprovado na sequência […]


Angola: Approbation de l’amendement de loi sur la nationalité

August 13, 2014 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Angola: Approbation de l’amendement de loi sur la nationalité

Luanda — Le projet de loi modifiant la loi n ° 1/05, du 01 juillet – Loi sur la nationalité, proposé par le détenteur du pouvoir exécutif, a été approuvé mardi, à Luanda, en généralité à l’Assemblée nationale. Cette approbation, […]


Remarks by Minister Malusi Gigaba, on the special announcement of the Zimbabwean Special Dispensation Permit

August 12, 2014 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Remarks by Minister Malusi Gigaba, on the special announcement of the Zimbabwean Special Dispensation Permit

Good morning fellow South Africans, members of the media, and interested stakeholders. In April 2009, the Cabinet of the Republic of South Africa approved the Dispensation of Zimbabweans Project – or ‘DZP’ – allowing Zimbabwean holders of this special permit […]


Can Global Refugee Policy Leverage Durable Solutions? Lessons from Tanzania’s Naturalization of Burundian Refugees

August 11, 2014 8:39 am Published by Comments Off on Can Global Refugee Policy Leverage Durable Solutions? Lessons from Tanzania’s Naturalization of Burundian Refugees

By James Milner, Journal of Refugee Studies (2014) 27 (4): 553-573. doi: 10.1093/jrs/feu023 Abstract: When Tanzania announced its willingness to naturalize some of the 220,000 Burundian refugees it had hosted since 1972, this became a test of a new global […]


27 countries limit a woman’s ability to pass citizenship to her child or spouse

August 5, 2014 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on 27 countries limit a woman’s ability to pass citizenship to her child or spouse

To most Americans, citizenship, like DNA, seems like something a parent passes to a child without thought or effort. And indeed, for fathers around the world, that’s almost universally true. But one-in-seven countries currently have laws or policies prohibiting or […]