October 6, 2022 3:49 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
Thuso Khumalo South African Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says his department is tracking foreign nationals, who engaged in fraudulent marriages to get citizenship of South Africa, as well as those using fraudulent passports. Minister Motsoaledi told reporters in Johannesburg […]
October 2, 2022 3:01 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
The Sunday Mail The mobile registration drive ended on Friday, with over three million civic documents having been issued. The figure is one million more than the planned target. The exercise, which was meant to clear the backlog that arose […]
October 1, 2022 9:53 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
October 2022 (COI between 1st January 2020 and 31st August 2022) Background: This report presents Country of Origin Information (COI) on Zimbabwe focusing on a range of profiles identified to be of relevance in refugee status determination for Zimbabwean nationals. […]
October 1, 2022 9:19 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Mumbi Gichuhi and Sandra Bucha Chapter in: Frans Viljoen, Humphrey Sipalla and Foluso Adegalu (eds.) Exploring African approaches to international law: Essays in honour of Kéba Mbaye, Pretoria University Law Press, 2022 Download book: https://www.pulp.up.ac.za/edited-collections/exploring-african-approaches-to-international-law-essays-in-honour-of-keba-mbaye Download chapter: https://www.pulp.up.ac.za/edocman/edited_collections/exploring_african_approaches/2022%20KM%20chapter%206.pdf
September 27, 2022 9:22 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Aletta Shikololo OUSHINI – Statelessness, one of the serious human rights issues, has been put at the forefront of the ministry of home affairs’ agenda. A stateless person is someone who is not considered a national of any state. […]
September 22, 2022 3:43 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
1. Bernard Anbataayela Mornah (hereinafter referred to as “the Applicant”) is a Ghanaian national and the National Chairman of the Convention People’s Party, a political party registered in Ghana. The Applicant alleges violations of human rights of the Sahrawi people […]
September 21, 2022 6:46 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Paul Kurgat Kenya Kwanza allies want outgoing Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i to be compelled to pay the exiled lawyer, Miguna Miguna, Ksh7 million as ordered by the court. Lawyer Nelson Havi led the clamour, arguing that the High […]
September 20, 2022 6:48 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Fred Kagonye | Sep 20, 2022 Lawyer Dr Miguna Miguna has taken to Twitter to reveal that he has received a new passport, five years since he was ‘deported’ from Kenya to Canada. In a tweet, Miguna stated that […]
September 19, 2022 9:55 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
By Ayang Macdonald Nigeria officials say they have so far been able to register the biometrics of almost 90 million citizens for National Identification Numbers despite many bottlenecks. The success means that a capacity crunch could be ahead, however. Speaking […]
September 13, 2022 9:20 am
Published by Bronwen Manby
Lawyers for Human Rights made written submissions to the parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs, to highlight the statelessness crisis in South Africa. Download the full report here.
September 11, 2022 8:05 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
The Federal Government has announced the conferment of citizenship by naturalisation and registration to 286 foreign nationals from 49 countries. In an advertorial signed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Dr Shuaib Belgore, and made available to Sunday PUNCH […]
September 11, 2022 5:19 pm
Published by Bronwen Manby
By R. Joyclyn Wea The Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Court of Liberia are at each other’s throat, legally dabbling to fine-tune the authorization of Liberian citizenship or issuance of Liberian passport to natural born Liberian citizens in foreign […]
