Author Archives for Bronwen Manby

Constitution de la Republique Democratique du Congo 2006

February 1, 2006 12:26 pm Published by Comments Off on Constitution de la Republique Democratique du Congo 2006

Chapitre 2 : De la Nationalité Article 10 La nationalité congolaise est une et exclusive. Elle ne peut être détenue concurremment avec aucune autre. La nationalité congolaise est soit d’origine, soit d’acquisition individuelle. Est Congolais d’origine, toute personne appartenant aux […]


Cote d’Ivoire: Year in brief 2005 – A chronology of key events

January 11, 2006 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Cote d’Ivoire: Year in brief 2005 – A chronology of key events

DAKAR, 11 January 2006 (IRIN) – Despite international pressure and a flurry of African Union mediation efforts, 2005 saw little progress in ending the crisis that divided Cote d’Ivoire more than three years ago, with rebels in control of the […]


Réinstallation à Ouagadougou des « rapatriés » burkinabè de Côte d’Ivoire

January 1, 2006 12:45 pm Published by Comments Off on Réinstallation à Ouagadougou des « rapatriés » burkinabè de Côte d’Ivoire

Par Sylvie Bredeloup, dans Afrique contemporaine 2006/1 (n° 217), pages 185 à 201 Depuis 1999, la succession des troubles ayant touché la Côte d’Ivoire a entraîné le retour de nombreux Burkinabè vers leur pays d’origine. Comment s’est déroulé ce retour au […]


Race, identity and citizenship in Black Africa: The case of the Lebanese in Ghana

January 1, 2006 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Race, identity and citizenship in Black Africa: The case of the Lebanese in Ghana

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong “Race, identity and citizenship in Black Africa: The case of the Lebanese in Ghana”, Africa, Vol.76 (3), 2006 Abstract The growth in studies of diaspora, globalization and transnationalism in the past decade has equipped us with unique […]


Transit migration in Egypt

January 1, 2006 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Transit migration in Egypt

By Howaida Roman Abstract: Egypt is a big receiver to different kinds of migration, legal and illegal, documented and undocumented. The influx of refugees to Egypt started in the 1990s as a result of wars in the Horn of Africa, […]


Uganda Constitution Amendment Act, No.21 of 2005

December 30, 2005 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Uganda Constitution Amendment Act, No.21 of 2005

Substitutes the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution, on regional governments. New Article 4 provides that: (2) A person shall not be qualified to be elected a regional chairperson unless — (a) he or she is a citizen of Uganda by […]


IPI Condemns Confiscation of Publisher’s Passport by Zimbabwean Authorities

December 9, 2005 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on IPI Condemns Confiscation of Publisher’s Passport by Zimbabwean Authorities

According to information provided to IPI, on 8 December, Trevor Ncube, publisher of the South African Mail and Guardian newspaper, as well as Zimbabwe’s The Standard and Zimbabwean Independent newspapers, had his passport confiscated by a plainclothes member of the […]


Nationalism, Identity and Citizenship in The Western Sahara

December 1, 2005 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Nationalism, Identity and Citizenship in The Western Sahara

By Pablo San Martin, Journal of North African Studies, Vol.10, No.3–4 (September–December 2005) pp.565–592 Abstract: This article explores the processes of development and naturalisation of the Saharawi national identity that emerged during the 1970s under the leadership of the Frente […]


CRC Concluding Observations: Uganda, 2005

November 23, 2005 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on CRC Concluding Observations: Uganda, 2005

CRC/C/UGA/CO/2 Fortieth session Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties under Article 44 of the Convention Concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Uganda Birth registration 37. The Committee notes with appreciation that the delegation underscored […]