Author Archives for Bronwen Manby

Kenya: Haki na Sheria Initiative and others v. Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Interior and Coordination of Government and others (refugee spouses – petition)

February 7, 2023 9:32 am Published by Comments Off on Kenya: Haki na Sheria Initiative and others v. Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Interior and Coordination of Government and others (refugee spouses – petition)

This Petition relates to citizenship rights of spouses of Kenyan citizens who have been married for the stipulated period of at least seven (7) years and who are also either confirmed to be convention refugees or persons who have sought […]


Citizenship Rights of Refugees Married to Kenyans

February 7, 2023 8:43 am Published by Comments Off on Citizenship Rights of Refugees Married to Kenyans

Haki na Sheria Initiative has today filed a petition in Garissa High Court relating to refugees married to Kenyans for seven or more years who are denied the right to apply for or acquire citizenship through marriage. Read press release: […]


RDC : Mémorandum sur la situation des Tutsi congolais

February 6, 2023 4:22 pm Published by Comments Off on RDC : Mémorandum sur la situation des Tutsi congolais

Nous, citoyens de la RDC et des pays amis issus de la mosaïque culturelle que regorge le continent africain, vous adressons ce mémorandum, en vertu de la Convention pour la prévention et la répression du crime de génocide de 1948, […]


Kenya: 1,698 citizenship applications were unapproved since 2018 – Kindiki

February 6, 2023 1:49 pm Published by Comments Off on Kenya: 1,698 citizenship applications were unapproved since 2018 – Kindiki

by FELIX KIPKEMOI There was a total of 1,698 applications for citizenship that have been pending approval over the last five years, Interior CS Kindiki Kithure has disclosed. All the applications, Kindiki stated, were pending the determination of the Cabinet […]


Kenya: le gouvernement passera à l’émission de certificats numériques de naissance et de décès le 1er mars

February 6, 2023 12:13 pm Published by Comments Off on Kenya: le gouvernement passera à l’émission de certificats numériques de naissance et de décès le 1er mars

Le gouvernement Kenyan passera à l’émission de certificats numériques de naissance et de décès dès le 1er mars prochain. C’est ce qu’a récemment annoncé le ministère de l’Intérieur de la République du Kenya. Selon Julius Bitok (photo), secrétaire principal des […]


Tunisia’s government must open the Mobile ID black box

February 6, 2023 7:08 am Published by Comments Off on Tunisia’s government must open the Mobile ID black box

Over six months ago, the Tunisian government launched the country’s first digital legal identity program, its “Mobile ID” or “e-houwiya” initiative. Based on mobile phone numbers, the Mobile ID program has been touted as part of a wider shift towards […]


Sans acte de naissance, les “enfants fantômes” du Niger sont privés de scolarisation

February 5, 2023 8:05 am Published by Comments Off on Sans acte de naissance, les “enfants fantômes” du Niger sont privés de scolarisation

Faute d’une présence de représentants de l’Etat dans certains endroits reculés, d’une vieille habitude ou tout simplement d’une méconnaissance de la loi, 4 enfants sur 10 ne sont pas inscrits à leur naissance à l’état civil dans ce pays où […]


South Africa: Invisible children: Onerous registration requirements leave countless without birth certificates

February 3, 2023 1:27 pm Published by Comments Off on South Africa: Invisible children: Onerous registration requirements leave countless without birth certificates

Charlene Kreuser and Sabrina Ochoa (Legal Resources Centre, Cape Town) Every child has the right to a name and a nationality. This right is guaranteed not only under the Constitution, but in international law as well, and accrues to children […]


Hamadziripi: Zimbabwe Ready to Repatriate Thousands of Citizens from South Africa After Expiration of Exemption Permits

February 2, 2023 12:39 pm Published by Comments Off on Hamadziripi: Zimbabwe Ready to Repatriate Thousands of Citizens from South Africa After Expiration of Exemption Permits

The Zimbabwean government says it has concrete plans in place to repatriate thousands of Zimbabweans, whose exemption permits will be terminated on June 30. Speaking to journalists in Johannesburg today, David Hamadziripi, Zimbabwe’s ambassador to South Africa, said they will […]


Communiqué final du conseil des ministres du Gabon du 1er février 2023

February 2, 2023 9:01 am Published by Comments Off on Communiqué final du conseil des ministres du Gabon du 1er février 2023

[…] Le projet de décret portant prorogation de la validité de la Carte Nationale d’Identité. Le présent décret pris en application des dispositions de l’article 51 de la Constitution porte prorogation de la validité de la Carte Nationale d’Identité. Par […]


Ethiopia digital ID prompts fears of ethnic profiling

February 1, 2023 3:07 pm Published by Comments Off on Ethiopia digital ID prompts fears of ethnic profiling

Zecharias Zelalem The rollout of digital ID Fayda in Ethiopia could entrench discrimination against Tigrayans and other ethnic minorities, rights groups fear Ethiopia introduces digital ID to improve access to services Tigrayans fear the data may be used to discriminate […]


Introduction to AHMR Special Issue on Statelessness

January 31, 2023 3:03 pm Published by Comments Off on Introduction to AHMR Special Issue on Statelessness

Introduction to AHMR Volume 8 Number 3 September – December 2022 The African Human Mobility Review (AHMR) is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed on-line journal created to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects (socio-economic, political, legislative and developmental) of human […]