By Mercy Chelangat What you need to know: For the undocumented, the lack of a national ID isn’t merely a bureaucratic hurdle; it’s a life sentence of marginalisation. Without IDs, these individuals are effectively erased from the state’s ledger, unable […]
Thomas Naadi, BBC Africa, and Jean Otalor Ghana has paused citizenship applications for members of the African diaspora in order to make the system more accessible and user friendly. Since 2016, those who can prove their ancestors came from Africa […]
TEMPORARY SUSPENSION NOTICE – February 1, 2026 The Ghana Ministry of the Interior and Diaspora Affairs Office have temporarily paused the citizenship application process. The February 2-6 application window is currently on hold while they work to streamline and improve […]
Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 51st Session of the Universal Periodic Review 4th Cycle Apr-May 2026 Association des femmes chefs de Famille (AFCF), Equality Now, the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights and the Institute on […]
By Patrícia JERÓNIMO and José PINA-DELGADO Introduction Cape Verde is a small island-state with a long history of migration and an oversized diaspora. Its citizenship regime stands out for extending ius sanguinis up to the fourth generation of children born […]
By Laura Otieno Hundreds of senior citizens from Alego Usonga in Siaya County turned up for the ongoing mobile national identity registration drive launched by the government. The residents, most of whom had lost their identification cards in the 80s […]
By Makuochi Okafor Husband and wife movie stars Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors have travelled to Guinea, where they have been granted citizenship after tracing their ancestry to the West African nation through DNA testing. Majors, a star of Creed […]
A former South Sudanese lawmaker has called on the government to restore her nationality documents, months after the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights ruled that she was arbitrarily deprived of her South Sudanese citizenship and ordered the state […]
Children from the stateless Rundi community in Kwale County continue to be denied equal access to education due to the lack of legal identification documents, human rights groups have warned. For more than 15 years, the Rundi have sought state […]
By Shaban Omar @Peopledailyke It is a new year, but for Esther Butui Ndambara from Kwale County, there is little to celebrate. For all her 42 years, Ndambara born and raised in Kenya and belonging to the Rundi community, she […]
By Mayeni Jones Many people may take their birth certificate, or similar official papers, for granted – hidden in a drawer and rarely seeing the light of day – but for those without one, it can lead to a shadow […]
Le ministre de l’Administration Territoriale, de la Gouvernance Locale et des Affaires Coutumières Colonel Awate Hodabalo et sa collègue de la Transformation Numérique et de l’Efficacité du Service Public Cina Lawson ont annoncé, lundi 15 décembre 2025, la mise en […]