CEDAW/C/CAF/CO/1-5 Nationality 33. The Committee is concerned about the lack of birth registration throughout the State party owing to the conflict. It is also concerned at the situation of refugee women and their children in neighbouring countries. It is further […]
CEDAW/C/MRT/CO/2-3 Extract: Nationality 32.The Committee is concerned about provisions in the Nationality Code that deny Mauritanian women the right on an equal basis with men to transmit their nationality to their children if the father is unknown or is a […]
Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter There is a scramble for Zimbabwean citizenship by different nationalities the world over in the wake of the adoption of the new Constitution which allows dual citizenship, Registrar-General Mr Tobaiwa Mudede said yesterday. Mr Mudede said […]
Non-Ugandans are turning up to register in the ongoing National Identity Card enrollment exercise in Bunyoro sub-region, security officials have said. By Francis Mugerwa, Hoima/Buliisa. Non-Ugandans are turning up to register in the ongoing National Identity Card enrollment exercise in […]
At least 750,000 people are stateless in West Africa, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), which is calling for governments to do more to give or restore the nationality of stateless individuals, and improve national laws to prevent statelessness. […]
With the exception of Tanzania, all the countries in Africa’s Great Lakes region have generated refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in large numbers over the past decades. And despite huge efforts to resolve conflict and displacement, by any standard […]
After a six-year legal battle, a girl born in South Africa to Cuban parents has a country she can call home. Yesterday, the girl’s mother said she was able to sleep again after the Pretoria High Court last week ruled […]
The North Gauteng High Court set a precedent last week when it ordered the government to change its citizenship act to facilitate the granting of citizenship to children born in the country to foreign parents – and, therefore, prevent statelessness. […]
Confusion surrounding the issue of dual citizenship continues, with the Zimbabwean government website showing that dual nationality is still prohibited, a fortnight after the Constitutional Court ruled otherwise. According to the website the 1984 Citizenship Act which says ‘no adult […]
Director of Criminal Investigations Ndegwa Muhoro confirmed that detectives were perusing a big number of files from the Immigration department, including those dated nine years ago. In Summary Some 5,752 old cases in which the identification documents were issued by […]
Last week, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria set a precedent by declaring a six-year-old child a South African citizen The child was born to Cuban parents who, due to Cuban law, were not able to pass their citizenship […]
By Khadija Patel In the gritty Johannesburg suburb of Mayfair a family was last month rejected as tenants of a new block of flats when a caretaker said the building enforced a strict ‘no foreigners’ rule. Never mind the dubious […]