By MAUREEN NJERI The Shona will participate in their first ever General Election n Kenya nearly six decades after the community migrated from Zimbabwe. Speaking to BBC Africa, the community secretary general Oliver Muregerera was excited to finally exercise his civil […]
Extracts relevant to Africa: Top events and news • 15 civil society and legal aid organizations established the Eastern Africa Nationality Network. • Three pledges from the 2019 High Level Segment on Statelessness were fully or partially implemented in Georgia, […]
The President of the Republic, H.E. Dr. George Manneh Weah, has set yet another first-time-in-history record with the signing into law of a number of iconic bills towards spurring national inclusiveness and the fight against graft and corruption in the […]
Egyptian law allows citizens to be granted permission to naturalize a foreign nationality while retaining their Egyptian nationality and that makes them exempt from military service. Masry Al-Youm answers how the Egyptian expatriates obtain the approval of the Egyptian authorities […]
« Le projet de décret portant création, attributions, organisation et fonctionnement du comité technique institutionnel d’éradication de l’apatridie au Congo répond au souci de lutter contre la prolifération des cas d’apatridie », peut-on lire dans le compte rendu du Conseil de ministres du 3 […]
by CLAUSE MASIKA Data Rights and their Kenyan partner organisations the Kenya Human Rights Commission and the Nubian Rights Forum (NRF) are suing IDEMIA, one of the leading biometric tech companies in the world, before the Paris judicial tribunal. The […]
Extract: Chapter 9.1 Birth registration A name and nationality are every child’s right, enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other international treaties. Registering children at birth is the first step in securing their recognition […]
SPOUSAL and relative’s visas should be done away with because the system is being “abused by foreign nationals” to settle in SA, the ANC has said in an additional discussion document distributed to delegates at the policy conference on Friday […]
By Muhammad Kamal In December 2020, political and human rights activist Ghada Naguib became the first Egyptian citizen to be stripped of her nationality over her criticisms of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government and its human rights abuses. Naguib and […]
Sango Coin, which is the official cryptocurrency for the Central African Republic, is now available for purchase on the Sango Investment Platform. This comes few weeks after the Investment Platform let investors deposit a basket of cryptocurrencies for investment, including […]
The law, which ends a 1973 ban on dual nationality, is partly due to extensive campaigning by Liberians in the diaspora. By Dounard Bondo Liberia’s president has signed into law a bill that amends the country’s alien and nationality law. The […]
Le 21 juillet 2022, au camp des réfugiés de Maroua, le chef-lieu de la région de l’Extrême-nord du Cameroun, le Haut-commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) a procédé à la remise de 1 000 actes de naissances aux […]