Author Archives for Bronwen Manby
March 26, 2026 12:11 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In April 2024, the Cabinet approved the White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration, and Refugee Protection (CIRP): Towards a comprehensive overhaul of South Africa’s migration system. The 2024 White Paper introduced substantial policy and legal reforms designed to address […]
March 25, 2026 9:15 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Patrice Okou AKA In the Tillabéri region of south-west Niger, thousands of displaced children grow up without birth certificates. A lack of information, coupled with the closure of some registration centres, and the remoteness of civil registry offices, mean […]
March 25, 2026 6:17 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Mary Wambui After gathering input from communities across the Coast, Northern Kenya, and Nairobi, Namati Kenya has developed a set of proposed amendments to the Citizenship and Immigration Bill (2025). In a memorandum submitted to the Clerk of the […]
March 25, 2026 10:51 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Journal Officiel n°108 Bis du 25 mars 2026. Titre II : De la reconnaissance de la nationalité gabonaise à titre de nationalité d’origine Article 20 : La reconnaissance de la nationalité gabonaise, à titre de nationalité d’origine, est établie, au […]
March 24, 2026 11:34 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
by Annah Nanjala Wekesa Kenyans have been invited to submit a memorandum on The Kenya Citizenship and Immigration (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 53 of 2025). The bill seeks to amend the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act, Cap. 170 […]
March 18, 2026 3:10 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
O Serviço de Investigação Criminal (SIC) deteve, no centro de apoio ao utente instalado na marginal de Luanda, mais de 50 cidadãos oriundos da República Democrática do Congo (RDC) que pretendiam obter passaporte angolano usando bilhetes de identidade (B.I) falsificados. […]
March 17, 2026 12:24 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Dr. Clarence R. Pearson, Sr Remarks of former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on citizenship ignite national debate. Few issues ignite debate in Liberia more quickly than the interpretation of the country’s constitutional provisions on citizenship and land ownership. Critics […]
March 17, 2026 11:26 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Laura Lambert An estimated 542 million Africans lack identity cards and potentially face statelessness. Without a legal identity, they can be excluded from basic human rights like education, healthcare and protection. Most African countries have tried to rectify this […]
March 13, 2026 7:18 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Akosua Shannan Magee Recently Ghana hosted another citizenship ceremony for members of the African diaspora, presided over by Her Excellency Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, representing His Excellency the President of the Republic […]
March 12, 2026 9:37 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
In February 2024, the African Union adopted “The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on Specific Aspects of the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa”, marking a major continental milestone in […]
March 12, 2026 6:26 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Gift Friday Noah in Juba In 2016, deadly conflict reached Wau town, north-western South Sudan, where 49-year-old pharmacist Michael Angelo Ufo and his family had called home for years, forcing them to flee to White Nile State in Sudan […]
March 10, 2026 6:41 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Accra (AFP) – Tightly holding her citizenship certificate against her chest, Patrice Ann Robertson wiped away a tear; she’s now officially Ghanaian nearly a decade after she started living in the west African country. “This is home,” the now Ghanaian-American, […]
