Citizenship is about the right to belong to a state and enjoy its rights while also fulfilling obligations. Without citizenship, a person can neither vote nor be voted into public office. Such statelessness has, in many an African country, been […]
It is rare for host countries to offer citizenship to groups of refugees, especially in the Great Lakes region where millions have been displaced. Instead, most governments wait for circumstances to change so that refugees can go back to their […]
By Luka Biong Deng The question of whether the Ngok Dinka of Abyei are citizens of South Sudan may seem strange to most people, who would answer it in the affirmative. But it seems a difficult question to a few, […]
In South Africa, which had the highest number of new asylum-seekers in the world in 2008, stateless migrants are inevitably present. What is surprising is that many people born on South African territory are also unable to access nationality in […]
CERD/C/DZA/CO/15-19 B.Positive aspects 4.The Committee welcomes the constitutional review of 22 April 2002, which resulted in the establishment of the Amazigh language as a national language. […] 8.It welcomes the amendments made to the Nationality Code in February 2006 allowing […]
The real content of citizenship rights in the country is the theme of a high-level colloquium organized for Wednesday, February 20, in Abuja, to help remedy what constitutional experts believe is one of the major weaknesses of the Nigerian constitution […]
South Sudanese citizens possessing dual citizenship in outside countries remain the impetus behind corruption practices in the new nation, a senior member of South Sudan ruling party (SPLM) has said. Franco Douth Diu, the SPLM secretary for Leer County in […]
February 13, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan on Wednesday launched plans for compulsory civil registration at childbirth, in an attempt to count and account for every South Sudanese citizen. The exercise was launched at a seminar in the South Sudan […]
(CIV/APN/519/12) [2013] LSHC 19 (13 February 2013) Summary Application to interdict respondent from denying applicant use of regular passport and to review and set aside the declaration of the passport as null and void to be irregular, unconstitutional and unlawful […]
By Oroub el Abed Abstract The several flows of Palestinians who arrived in Egypt due to established fear of wars or due to professional and socio-economic reasons in the years 1948, 1956 and 1967 endeavoured to integrate in the Egyptian […]
Frederik Ngubane, 22, returned to South Africa, the country of his birth, in 2009, after spending his entire childhood in Kenya and Uganda. An orphan, Ngubane had lost all contact with his South African relatives, and soon after arriving in […]
The National Human Right Commission, NHRC, leads the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, OSIWA, and PREMIUM TIMES to debate the status of residency rights in Nigeria The National Human Right Commission (NHRC), along with the Open Society Initiative for […]