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Don’t Segregate, We’re One Blood: High Court Grants Somali-Ugandans Access To Citizenship, Passport & ID

March 20, 2022 7:39 pm Published by Comments Off on Don’t Segregate, We’re One Blood: High Court Grants Somali-Ugandans Access To Citizenship, Passport & ID

By Frank Kamuntu The Civil Division of High Court in Kampala has ordered the Immigration office to give people of Somali origin citizenship as long as they fulfill requirements of the law. The judgment issued through email by Justice Musa […]


Uganda: Court Orders Immigration to Give Citizenship to People of Somali Origin

March 19, 2022 3:25 pm Published by Comments Off on Uganda: Court Orders Immigration to Give Citizenship to People of Somali Origin

By Hafitha Issa The Civil Division of High Court in Kampala has ordered the Immigration office to give people of Somali Origin citizenship as long as they fulfill requirements of the law. The Judgment issued through email by Justice Musa […]


Gabon/Déclaration de naissance : Révision des délais de déclaration d’un enfant

March 19, 2022 1:28 pm Published by Comments Off on Gabon/Déclaration de naissance : Révision des délais de déclaration d’un enfant

Dès l’accouchement, chaque enfant doit avoir son acte de naissance dans les mois qui suivent. Malheureusement, il y a encore des enfants qui ne sont pas déclarés par leurs parents. C’est pour rattraper ce retard que l’Etat via le projet […]


South Africa: The plight of the stateless highlighted in video campaign

March 19, 2022 10:31 am Published by Comments Off on South Africa: The plight of the stateless highlighted in video campaign

By Murphy Nganga Cape Town – With the goal of humanizing the experience of statelessness, the Jesuit Refugee Service South Africa (JRS) launched a campaign to raise awareness about the lives of young people born to refugees who encounter numerous […]


Uganda: Abdu Abucar Hussein and 7 others v. Attorney General

March 18, 2022 9:30 am Published by Comments Off on Uganda: Abdu Abucar Hussein and 7 others v. Attorney General

CIVIL SUIT NO. 437 OF 2019 JUDGMENT The plaintiffs instituted this suit against the defendant seeking for orders that; A declaration that the plaintiffs and other eligible members of the Uganda Somali’s Community are citizens by birth. A declaration that […]


Spain changes tune on Western Sahara

March 18, 2022 7:09 am Published by Comments Off on Spain changes tune on Western Sahara

Spain on Friday declared “a new stage” in its strained relations with Morocco after the Spanish prime minister wrote to the Moroccan king, agreeing that having Western Sahara operate autonomously under Rabat’s rule is “the most serious, realistic and credible” […]


First Ethiopian Digital Identification Draft Proclamation Public Consultation

March 15, 2022 6:29 pm Published by Comments Off on First Ethiopian Digital Identification Draft Proclamation Public Consultation

On Friday, March 11, 2022, the National Identification (ID) Program hosted its first “Digital Identification Proclamation Consultation” with invited officials and guests at the Ethiopian Skylight Hotel. Over 200 key stakeholders representing Federal ministries and government agencies, regional governments, civil […]


Biometrics registration for Zambia’s new national ID system underway

March 14, 2022 10:13 am Published by Comments Off on Biometrics registration for Zambia’s new national ID system underway

By Ayang Macdonald Zambia’s parliament has been told that work to put in place a new biometric ID system dubbed the Integrated National Registration Information System (INRIS) has started, with the biometrics of at least 15,000 Zambians already captured for […]


Cameroun: L’Etat lance une opération de comptabilisation des actes d’état civil

March 12, 2022 9:02 am Published by Comments Off on Cameroun: L’Etat lance une opération de comptabilisation des actes d’état civil

Le 10 mars 2022, à l’hôtel de ville de Yaoundé, le ministre de la Décentralisation et du Développement Local (Minddevel) Georges Elanga Obam a présidé la cérémonie officielle de lancement de l’opération de comptabilisation des actes d’état civil existants depuis […]


Burkina : Plaidoyer pour l’enregistrement continu des naissances au sein des déplacés internes

March 11, 2022 9:21 am Published by Comments Off on Burkina : Plaidoyer pour l’enregistrement continu des naissances au sein des déplacés internes

Le Ministère de l’administration territoriale, de la décentralisation et de la sécurité avec le soutien du Haut-commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) a organisé un atelier de renforcement des capacités sur la problématique de l’apatridie au Burkina Faso. […]


São Tomé & Príncipe – Lei n.º 07/2022 Lei da Nacionalidade

March 10, 2022 5:45 pm Published by Comments Off on São Tomé & Príncipe – Lei n.º 07/2022 Lei da Nacionalidade

Preâmbulo Tendo passado mais de duas décadas de vigência, verifica-se a necessidade de se suprir lacunas existentes na Lei 06/90, de 13 de Setembro, suscitando para o efeito alterações, a fim de proporcionar a construção de uma nacionalidade mais coesa […]


Cameroon seeks escape from its biometric national ID card woes

March 8, 2022 4:23 pm Published by Comments Off on Cameroon seeks escape from its biometric national ID card woes

By Ayang Macdonald Isidore O., a 25-year-old Cameroonian living in the town of Bangem in the South West Region of the country applied for the national digital identity card in early 2018. By December 2021, Isidore had become extremely frustrated […]