It is often the duty of any government to put in place specific measures or laws to ensure that citizens are accurately recognised. Governments are also supposed to cater for foreign nationals in order to incorporate them in a particular […]
Labour and Home Affairs Minister Edwin Batshu says 443 nationals of Indian origin and seven of Chinese have been granted Botswana citizenship since 1966.Responding to a question in parliament on Wednesday, Batshu said applications are considered by the Citizenship Committee […]
IN a piece of detail passed in November but only uncovered this week, ousted Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaore, who fled to Ivory Coast after his October 2014 ouster, has been granted Ivorian citizenship there on his request. Both Compaore […]
IN a piece of detail passed in November but only uncovered this week, ousted Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaore, who fled to Ivory Coast after his October 2014 ouster, has been granted Ivorian citizenship there on his request. Both Compaore and […]
Luanda – Los diputados aprobaron hoy, miércoles, en Luanda, en la globalidad, la Ley de Nacionalidad, por 142 votos a favor, 34 contra y cuatro abstenciones, en el ámbito de la 4ª reunión plenaria ordinaria de la IV Sesión Legislativa […]
By Flavia Mwangovya, Equality Now Everyone has the right to be born with a nationality – safe, fearless and free – and secure in their human right to equally transfer, acquire, change or retain it. There is no reason why […]
Egyptian Prime Minister Sheriff Ismail issued a directive on Wednesday to strip three Egyptian expatriates of their citizenship after they joined the military service of foreign countries without a prior permit from the Egyptian Defense Ministry. The three are named […]
Low registration of births and deaths in Ghana is hampering the creation of a reliable national identification system, a senior official said here late Thursday. John Agbeko, Acting Director of the Department of Births and Deaths, said a functional national […]
The ECOWAS Commission on Friday said Senegal and Benin Republic were set to begin issuance of the ECOWAS Biometric Identity Cards which came into force in January. Amb. Kadre Ouedraogo, President of the Commission, said this in an interview with […]
Home is where you belong, where you feel connected. Imagine then what it is like to be born without a nationality or to be denied the citizenship of your mother, or, at times, your father, because of discrimination in the […]
Dadaab, in eastern Kenya, is the largest refugee camp in the world sheltering thousands of Somalis. Ben Rawlence, author of a new book, City of Thorns, chronicles the lives of people who live there. More.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Ghana will from February 15 to March 12, organise a series of activities to mark the first anniversary of the “Abidjan Ministerial Declaration” on the eradication of statelessness. It would be recalled […]