Author Archives for Djibril Balde
May 11, 2017 12:34 pm
Published by Djibril Balde
Ms Marie-Pierre Poirier, Regional Director, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), says about 40 million children under five are unregistered in the West African region. Poirier made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday […]
May 9, 2017 3:56 pm
Published by Djibril Balde
M. Fatty a lancé cet appel, ce dimanche 7 mai 2017, à Banjul, en Gambie, lors de la cérémonie d’ouverture de la réunion des experts pour la validation du plan d’action pour l’éradication de l’apatridie en Afrique de l’Ouest. « Un enfant […]
May 9, 2017 8:54 am
Published by Djibril Balde
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR, Regional Representative for West Africa, Liz Ahua, has said massive displacement in Nigeria’s North-East zone posed great dangers of statelessness for victims. Ahua, who stated this at the opening ceremony of a […]
May 9, 2017 8:45 am
Published by Djibril Balde
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR, Regional Representative for West Africa, Liz Ahua, has said massive displacement in Nigeria’s North-East zone posed great dangers of statelessness for victims. Ahua, who stated this at the opening ceremony of a […]
May 8, 2017 7:32 am
Published by Djibril Balde
Windhoek – Namibia is among a few countries in Africa to have digitalised the National Population Register, which is fully integrated, combining the birth, ID, marriage and death registers under one profile, Vice-President Nickey Iyambo has confirmed. Read more
May 7, 2017 1:45 pm
Published by Djibril Balde
Etre apatride, c’est ne pas avoir de nationalité. Cela peut sembler abstrait, mais dans les faits, cela implique beaucoup de choses. Impossible pour les enfants, par exemple, de se rendre dans les écoles qui demandent des extraits de naissance, puis […]
May 5, 2017 1:48 pm
Published by Djibril Balde
Pour cette édition, elle a choisi le thème « Femmes et Apatridie » pour participer à l’effort de sensibilisation sur ce phénomène mondial. Le problème de l’apatridie demeure, en effet, une anomalie flagrante ayant des impacts dévastateurs sur la vie […]
May 1, 2017 8:54 am
Published by Djibril Balde
By Marcus Malayea in Gbarnga City Bong County Jefferson Gbanyan, the Bong County Service Center Coordinator, said the service center has recorded 6,731 service users from May 2016 to March 2017. Tuesday, April 25, was a year since the service […]
April 28, 2017 9:13 am
Published by Djibril Balde
L’absence de nationalité rend la vie des apatrides difficile. Ils vivent reclus de la société et vulnérables à toutes sortes d’exploitation. Par ailleurs, les apatrides ne jouissent d’aucun droit. Ils n’ont donc aucun document, le plus souvent. Dimanche dernier 23 […]
April 27, 2017 11:56 am
Published by Djibril Balde
The Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration said it is working with the Ministry of Health and Social Services, and the Prime Minister’s Office to introduce an electronic birth notification system in the country. In statement delivered at the just-ended […]
April 26, 2017 11:57 am
Published by Djibril Balde
Minister of Home Affairs and Immigration Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana has urged parents, particularly fathers, to name their babies before they are born to enable delivering mothers to register their children at birth. The pre-birth naming is also necessary to ensure that […]
April 25, 2017 12:24 pm
Published by Djibril Balde
Les députés ont poursuivi, à la faveur de leur séance plénière de ce lundi 24 avril, l’examen de la proposition de loi portant identification des personnes en République du Bénin démarré vendredi dernier. Ils ont passé au peigne fin les […]