Author Archives for Bronwen Manby

A Right or a Privilege: Access to Identity and Citizenship in Zimbabwe

December 1, 2008 1:21 pm Published by Comments Off on A Right or a Privilege: Access to Identity and Citizenship in Zimbabwe

By Rumbidzai Dube Identity documents are tags reflective of an individual’s history and heritage. Without identity documents individuals fall into a bureaucratic limbo as procedures for telling who they are, where they are from, and to whom they are connected […]


The Invisible Refugee Camp: Durable Solutions for Boreah ‘Residuals’ in Guinea

December 1, 2008 11:41 am Published by Comments Off on The Invisible Refugee Camp: Durable Solutions for Boreah ‘Residuals’ in Guinea

Lacy Andrews Gale Journal of Refugee Studies Vol. 21, No. 4 [2008]. doi:10.1093/jrs/fen040 What happens when refugees do not repatriate post-conflict? For those who remain in refugee camps, the remaining, durable solutions of resettlement and local integration may be neither […]


Human Rights in Western Sahara and in the Tindouf Refugee Camps

December 1, 2008 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Human Rights in Western Sahara and in the Tindouf Refugee Camps

This report is in two parts. Part one examines present-day human rights conditions in Western Sahara. Part two examines present-day human rights conditions in the Sahrawi refugee camps administered by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and […]


Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment No.19 Bill

November 27, 2008 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment No.19 Bill

3rd draft of the proposed new text for the constitutional amendments to form a government of national unity (not the version finally adopted).. Download file: here


Zimbabwe, Constitution Amendment No 19 Bill – MDC draft

November 24, 2008 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Zimbabwe, Constitution Amendment No 19 Bill – MDC draft

Proposals from the opposition MDC for the constitutional amendments to form a governmnet of national unity (not the version finally adopted). Download file: here


Gambia Refugee Act 2008

November 17, 2008 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Gambia Refugee Act 2008

The Gambia Refugee Act adopts the definition of a refugee from the 1951 Refugee Convention and the OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee. The Act also includes protection of stateless refugees within its definition, including any person “not […]


Going Home or Staying Home: Ending Displacement for Burundian Refugees in Tanzania

November 13, 2008 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Going Home or Staying Home: Ending Displacement for Burundian Refugees in Tanzania

This paper focuses on issues of belonging and exclusion for refugees who fled Burundi in the early 1970s and sought  refuge in Tanzania. More than three decades later, and with a peace agreement ending active hostilities in Burundi, “durable solutions” […]


Mbororo claims to regional citizenship

November 1, 2008 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Mbororo claims to regional citizenship

Michaela Pelican “Mbororo Claims to Regional Citizenship and Minority Status in North-West Cameroon”, Africa, 2008, Vol. 78, No.4, pp 540-560 Abstract: Discourses on autochthony, citizenship and exclusion have become popular in Cameroon as well as in other parts of Africa, […]


Cote d’Ivoire: Communique Ressortissants CEDEAO

October 31, 2008 12:29 pm Published by Comments Off on Cote d’Ivoire: Communique Ressortissants CEDEAO

Le Premier Ministre, Monsieur Guillaume Kigbafori SORO et le Président de la Commission EIectorale Indépendante, Monsieur Robert Mambé BEUGRE, portent à la connaissance des populations qu’il revient de manière récurrente que des citoyens ressortissants de pays membres de la CEDEAO […]


Cote d’Ivoire: Communique — citoyens ressortissants de pays membres de la CEDEAO

October 31, 2008 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Cote d’Ivoire: Communique — citoyens ressortissants de pays membres de la CEDEAO

[…] le Premier Ministre et le Président de la Commission Electorale Indépendante tiennent à informer les ressortissants du Bénin, du Burkina Faso, du Cap Vert, de la Gambie,du Ghana, de la Guinée, de la Guinée-Bissau, du Liberia, du Mali, du […]


Status of Nigerians living in the Bakassi Peninsula

October 29, 2008 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Status of Nigerians living in the Bakassi Peninsula

The status of Nigerians living in the Bakassi Peninsula; whether they are considered to be Nigerian citizens or citizens of Cameroon; whether individuals of Nigerian descent are free to move back to Nigeria (2006 – September 2008) The Bakassi Peninsula […]