A new law requiring national identity cards in order to receive salaries and public services took effect on 1 April on Tanzania’s semiautonomous island of Zanzibar, sending residents scrambling for the necessary documentation on Monday. “As from April 1, most […]
ABIDJAN, 31 March 2006 (IRIN) – The start of a process to identify Ivorian nationals, key to holding presidential elections in Cote d’Ivoire later this year, has been held up by President Laurent Gbagbo, local newspapers said on Friday. Read […]
Thousands of Congolese refugees who fled in the 1970s to Angola from what was then Zaire, are having to decide whether to officially integrate or go home to the now Democratic Republic of the Congo – a country which many […]
CRC/C/MUS/CO/2 Committee on the Rights of the Child Forty-first session Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 44 of the Convention Concluding observations: Mauritius Birth registration 33. The Committee notes with appreciation the initiatives undertaken by the State […]
CRC/C/GHA/CO/2 Committee on the Rights of the Child Forty-first session Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties under Article 44 of the Convention Concluding observations: Ghana Birth registration 32. Notwithstanding the remarkable progress achieved in improving birth registration coverage from […]
Chapter III and Schedule 3 amended by Uganda Constitution Amendment Act, No.11 of 2005; Schedule 5 substituted by Act No.21 of 2005. Download file: Uganda Constitution 1995 as amended 2005
UNHCR Executive Committee Report EC/57/SC/CRP.6 Download file: here
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 […]
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada response to information request. Download file: here
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]