By Wolfram Lacher A multitude of armed groups and smuggling networks with transnational reach are driving southern Libya’s integration into the Sahel–Sahara region. Contrary to widespread external perceptions, the extremist presence remains a marginal phenomenon in the southwest (Fezzan), at […]
Ugandans have been warned to take the national identity card registration exercise seriously. By Francis Emorut and John Agaba Ugandans have been warned to take the national identity card registration exercise seriously because without it no one will be allowed […]
Liberian Citizenship was conferred on 59 Liberian Refugees in Ghana on Friday November 29, 2013 when they took an oath of allegiance administered by the Charge d’affaires of the Liberian Embassy in Ghana, Mrs. Musu Ruhle. The oath of allegiance […]
[The following is an English translation of a memorandum that was issued by a group of concerned Libyan citizens to the Constitutional Drafting Assembly on 20 August 2014 with respect to the right of Libyan women to pass on citizenship […]
By Ntsebeng Motsoeli MASERU — About 72 000 people have registered for birth certificates while 41 000 applied for identity cards since the launch of the National Identity and Civil Registration (NICR) project in July last year. Home Affairs Minister […]
2019 amendments did not affect provisions on citizenship. Extracts: Article 6. Citizenship Citizenship is a right to anyone born to an Egyptian father or an Egyptian mother. Being legally recognized and obtaining official papers proving his personal data is a […]
A Cuban mother has turned to the Pretoria High Court in desperation as her 5-year-old daughter, who was born in South Africa, is at present a stateless person without any rights, as both the South African and Cuban governments refuse […]
LAWS OF SEYCHELLES: CHAPTER 30, CONSOLIDATED TO 6 JANUARY 2014 Act 18 of 1994, as amended by Act 11 of 2013 Supplementing the constitutional provisions on citizenship. Download: Seychelles Citizenship Act 1994 amended 2013
Hundreds of Cameroonians have been forcefully expelled from neighboring Equatorial Guinea for being in the country illegally. They are complaining that their property was seized and valid transit documents are not being recognized. Part of this issue appears to be […]
Samantha Balaton-Chrimes (2014) “Statelessness, identity cards and citizenship as status in the case of the Nubians of Kenya”, Citizenship Studies, 18:1, 15-28 Statelessness as a legal and political problem has attracted increasing attention from scholars and international advocacy organisations in […]
Nigeria Research Network Policy Brief MAIN FINDINGS Constitutional and political controversies about citizenship rights and indigeneity in Nigeria’s 36 states and 774 Local Government Areas have generated more heat than light, and there has been little substantive progress on the […]
Delphine Perrin, “Struggles of Citizenship in the Maghreb” in The Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies, E. Isin, P. Nyers (eds.), Routledge, 2014, pp.230-239. Download: https://hal-amu.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01395220/document