March 1, 2011 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Sebastian Kohn Abdulhaleem El-Busaidy is only one of millions of Kenyans who are discriminated against in access to Kenyan nationality—despite having a clear right to it under Kenyan law. The main problem is discrimination in the issuance of national ID […]
February 23, 2011 8:26 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Download: Guinea Bissau Decreto-Lei 6_2011 regulamento da nacionalidade
February 23, 2011 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
The people of Southern Sudan voted overwhelmingly in favour of independence from Sudan as a whole last month, according to official results released on Monday 7 February 2011. With the South seceding from the North of Sudan, an intense political […]
February 18, 2011 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Petition No.1 of 2011 Ruling that additional documents cannot be required for Kenyans of Asian or Arab descent or Muslims to obtain a national ID. Download file: MUHURI v Registrar Judgement 2011
February 7, 2011 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Paper by Bronwen Manby, published in advance of the 2011 referendum on the secession of South Sudan. — Summary Among the many critically important choices that Sudan is facing in the context of the referendums on the status of South […]
January 28, 2011 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
More than two dozen civil society organisations called today on the AU’s Peace and Security Council to ensure that the rights of all Sudan’s existing citizens to a nationality are fully protected following the probable secession of South Sudan. The […]
January 26, 2011 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Dr. Elwathig Kameir, The New Sudan Vision “The separation of the south, even if it is a curse, it remains to be a perceptible political reality that could be turned positively, while transforming its cons into pros, and its […]
January 23, 2011 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Download file (scan of news article): here
January 21, 2011 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Download file: here (scan of article).
January 14, 2011 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Abyei has proved to be the hardest part of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) to implement, harder, even, than the determination of the rest of the North-South boundary, or the division of oil revenues. In this personal commentary Douglas Johnson […]
January 14, 2011 12:00 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
A senior official in the ministry of interior in Khartoum announced on Wednesday that the responsible departments have drafted a set of amendments to the passports and immigration law in order to address the increasing foreign presence in the country. […]
January 13, 2011 3:16 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
A government circular requiring persons of Asian or Arabic descent professing Islam to be vetted before being issued with national identity cards has been challenged in court. Muslims for Human Rights (Muhuri) said the confidential circular issued to all district […]