Author Archives for Bronwen Manby

Togo: gratuité de l’acte de naissance, les communes seront remboursées

February 16, 2022 1:11 pm Published by Comments Off on Togo: gratuité de l’acte de naissance, les communes seront remboursées

Pour chaque acte de naissance délivré, les communes seront remboursées par l’Etat togolais. Ce lundi 14 février 2022, à travers un arrêté, le ministre de l’administration territoriale, Payadowa Boukpessi et Sani Yaya, ministre de l’économie et des finances ont communiqué […]


Kenya: MPs petition state to recognise stateless Pemba community

February 15, 2022 7:36 pm Published by Comments Off on Kenya: MPs petition state to recognise stateless Pemba community

By SHABAN OMAR MPs and rights organisations are pushing for the recognition of the stateless Pemba community. The National Assembly has adopted a report by the National Security and Administration Committee to grant Pembas citizenship. The lawmakers led by Kilifi […]


RDC : L’identification de la population aura lieu avant la tenue des élections (Sama Lukonde)

February 15, 2022 11:32 am Published by Comments Off on RDC : L’identification de la population aura lieu avant la tenue des élections (Sama Lukonde)

Au cours d’un déjeuner de presse avec les professionnels des médias, le Premier Ministre Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde a tenu à lever l’équivoque entre le recensement voulu pour avoir un fichier d’identité national et permettre à la population d’avoir une carte […]


Côte d’Ivoire: Blé Goudé devenu un apatride, ses avocats accusés: « Que font-ils? »

February 14, 2022 2:35 pm Published by Comments Off on Côte d’Ivoire: Blé Goudé devenu un apatride, ses avocats accusés: « Que font-ils? »

Le retard dans la délivrance du passeport ivoirien de Charles Blé Goudé, met le leader du COJEP dans une situation des plus embarrassantes. Alors qu’il est définitivement acquitté par la CPI, Blé Goudé n’a toujours pas regagné son pays la […]


Nigeria: FG grants citizenship to 286 foreigners — out of 600 applications

February 9, 2022 3:35 pm Published by Comments Off on Nigeria: FG grants citizenship to 286 foreigners — out of 600 applications

By Ayodele Oluwafemi Out of 600 applications received, the federal government has granted Nigerian citizenship to 286 foreign nationals. Rauf Aregbesola, minister of interior, said the applications were approved at the federal executive council (FEC) meeting, which was presided over […]


Nigeria: 286 foreign nationals get Nigerian citizenship

February 9, 2022 3:07 pm Published by Comments Off on Nigeria: 286 foreign nationals get Nigerian citizenship

TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SIX foreign nationals, including citizens of the United States and some European countries, have been granted Nigerian citizenship. By Vincent Ufuoma Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola announced this after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday. […]


Kenya: How State secretly plotted Miguna Miguna’s ‘deportation’ to Canada

February 8, 2022 5:58 pm Published by Comments Off on Kenya: How State secretly plotted Miguna Miguna’s ‘deportation’ to Canada

By Fred Mukinda The deportation of self-declared National Resistance Movement “general” Miguna Miguna was crafted and executed while unsuspecting supporters and lawyers waited for him at the Milimani Law Courts. It was a guarded secret that even some of the […]


Zambians in diaspora write president on documentation-related hardships

February 8, 2022 2:14 pm Published by Comments Off on Zambians in diaspora write president on documentation-related hardships

Authors demand intervention to solve challenges in accessing national documents James Kunda Zambians in the diaspora wrote Tuesday to President Hakainde Hichilema asking for help in accessing national documents. Ferdinand Simaanya, the head of the Zambian Diaspora Organization, said the […]


Kenya’s Nubian people still struggling for official recognition

February 5, 2022 10:03 am Published by Comments Off on Kenya’s Nubian people still struggling for official recognition

by: Victor Moturi Kenyans from the Nubian community continue to live on the margins of society, blocked from acquiring national identity cards and other vital documents necessary to work officially, go to school and even vote. “Our community does not […]


RDC: Compte rendu de la trente-neuvieme reunion du Conseil des ministres

February 4, 2022 11:36 am Published by Comments Off on RDC: Compte rendu de la trente-neuvieme reunion du Conseil des ministres

Extrait: V. EXAMEN ET ADOPTION DES TEXTES (03 textes) V.1. Trois Projets de Décrets Le Vice-Premier Ministre, Ministre de l’Intérieur, Sécurité et Affaires Coutumières a soumis au Conseil trois (3) Projets de Décrets pour délibération. Le premier a porté sur […]


South Africa: Registration of a child’s birth: Unmarried fathers no longer treated differently from married fathers

February 4, 2022 10:08 am Published by Comments Off on South Africa: Registration of a child’s birth: Unmarried fathers no longer treated differently from married fathers

By Lungelo Mkhize, candidate attorney, Sushila Dhever, partner ; Fasken Law On 22 September 2021, the Constitutional Court handed down a judgment in the case of Centre for Child Law v Director General: Department of Home Affairs and Others [2021] […]