Implementing the provisions of the 1995 Constitution. Download file: 1999 Uganda Citizenship and Immigration Control Act (PDF, 116 kb)
File: Ghana Children’s Act 1998 The act holds that no child shall be deprived of the right to acquire a nationality from birth (Section 4). The Act states that each parent shall be responsible for the registration of the birth […]
By Christopher J Gray, Africa Today, Jul-Dec 1998; Vol.45, Nos.3/4 Article argues that mob violence against foreign populations “has provided the critical ingredient in the formation of Gabonese ideas of citizenship”. Link to Africa Today on JSTOR.
CRC/C/11/Add.18. (State Party Report) Examen des Rapports Préséntés par les États Parties en Application de l’Article 44 de la Convention Rapports initiaux des États parties devant être soumis en 1994 République Centraficaine Le droit pour tout enfant né en République […]
Xinhua (Dar es Salaam 11/11/1998) reports that Tanzania has granted citizenship to more than 1,000 foreigners from 33 countries over the past four years, with the majority of them from Burundi, Deputy Home Affairs Minister John Mgeja said Wednesday. Since […]
S.C.Z. Judgment 14 of 1998 [1998] ZMSC 11 (9 November 1998) IN THE MATTER of an Application under Article 41(2) of the Constitution of Zambia and IN THE MATTER of the eligibility of a candidate in respect of Article 34(3) […]
Draft constitutional amendments, produced by an ad-hoc committee of Mozambique’s parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, envisage substantial changes in the country’s political system, with a reduction in presidential powers and an increase in those of the prime minister, and […]
By Dr. Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto Kampala — One of the consequences of Uganda’s post-independence insecurity was the forced migration of Ugandan citizens to distant lands around the globe. While the number of Ugandan emigres is not available, they […]
CRC/C/8/Add.39 Nom et nationalité (art. 7) 38. À Djibouti, le droit au nom dès la naissance trouve son fondement à lafois dans le vécu historique et la réalité sociologique de notre pays. Chaque enfant est ainsi doté d’un prénom dans […]
Extract: Article 22 Nationality Everyone born of a Sudanese mother or father has the inalienable right to Sudanese nationality, its duties, and obligations. Everyone who has lived in Sudan during their youth or who has been resident in Sudan for […]
[Believed to be adopted as Identification Act No.4 of 1998] The object of this Bill is to provide for compilation and maintenance of a population register in respect of the population of Swaziland; for the issuance of identity documents to […]
By Mahmood Mamdani Text of Inaugral Lecture as A C Jordan Professor of African Studies, University of Cape Town, Lecture Theatre 1, Education Building, Middle Campus, Wednesday 13 May 1998, 8.15 p.m. Download here