This Shadow Report to the South Africa State report to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) is submitted as a joint report by a coalition of Civil Society Organisations working in South Africa on various thematic areas […]
HOME affairs minister Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana says Namibians still using the old South West Africa identification cards should apply for new ones because the colonial document will be phased out on 31 March next year. In her budget speech in the […]
Spotlight on: Anniversary of the Abidjan Declaration A day in the life of… Focus Development Association, human rights NGO in Madagascar “The resolution of statelessness means so much to the affected population in terms of their condition, emotions and dignity. […]
The National Identification Authority (Nida) is finalising legal arrangements to start using the National Electoral Commission (NEC) database in registration and issuing national IDs. The move revealed by Nida acting director general Modestus Kipilimba is a major about-turn by the […]
South Africans are fortunate enough to be allowed to hold more than two nationalities. It is, however, important to note that a person must first apply to retain his or her South African citizenship before taking on any other nationality […]
Some Nigerians who have registered with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). expressed worries today, that several years after they performed the civic task, they are yet to get the national identity cards. In separate interviews the Nigerians wondered what […]
Sudan threatened on Thursday to close its recently reopened border with South Sudan, accusing its neighbour of supporting rebel groups. Stoking tensions further, Sudan’s cabinet said it would tighten restrictions on South Sudanese people living in its territory and prosecute […]
THIS certainly is not the best of time for Nigerian communities located along the borders with the Republic of Cameroun. Indeed, 13 years after the ceding of the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroun by the International Court of Justice, ICJ, […]
Conference: Ensuring everyone’s right to nationality: The role of Parliaments in preventing and ending statelessness The conference, co-organized by the Parliament of South Africa, the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, brought together […]
Registrar General (RG) Tobaiwa Mudede has said his department has managed to “tremendously” reduce corruption at his offices following the upgrade and digitisation of the registration processes. It marks a dramatic turnaround in a department which had been listed among […]
C’est le jeudi 10 mars 2016 que l’association des blogueurs de Guinée (ABLOGUI) a lancé sa campagne #Droitàl’identité pour réclamer aux autorités guinéennes la carte d’identité nationale et le passeport pour tous les citoyens qui en font la demande, à […]
Benin’s constitution was amended in 1995 to allow candidates with dual citizenship to stand for elections and for the diaspora to vote in elections. There are over 4 million Beninois that leave outside of Benin, mostly in other African countries […]