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Namibia: Home Affairs to Appeal Surrogacy Citizenship Judgement

Published: 8/Nov/2021
Source: New Era (Windhoek)

The home affairs ministry will appeal a recent High Court ruling which declared the son of a same-sex couple born via surrogacy a Namibian citizen by descent in the Supreme Court. “After studying the said reasons, we have decided to […]

Uganda: 13 Years in Limbo: Forced Evictions of the Benet in the Name of Conservation

Published: 8/Nov/2021
Source: Amnesty International

On 16 February 2008, Ugandan authorities forcibly evicted 178 Indigenous Benet families from Benet forest, Mount Elgon, Sebei region (Bukwo and Kween districts), in eastern Uganda, rendering them homeless. Over a decade later, when Amnesty International visited Mount Elgon, members […]

Afrique de l’Ouest : les États vent debout contre l’apatridie

Published: 6/Nov/2021
Source: Le Point

Le terme apatride désigne une personne qui n’a la nationalité d’aucun pays. Ils sont plus d’un million à être dans ce cas en Afrique de l’Ouest et à vivre ainsi sans identité légale. Aujourd’hui, alors qu’il y a eu une réelle prise de conscience […]

Liberia: Aliens & Nationality Law under scrutiny as lawmakers submit bill

Published: 5/Nov/2021
Source: New Dawn (Monrovia)

Liberia: About 30 lawmakers from the House of Representatives have co-signed a bill and submitted the same before the House requesting the amendment or the repeal of parts of the country’s Aliens and Nationality Law. The bill requesting the amendment […]

Afrique de l’Ouest : l’apatridie reste une réalité

Published: 5/Nov/2021
Source: africanews

Par Serge Koffi Sans acte de naissance, difficile d’accéder à l’école. De nombreuses personnes s’exposent donc à l’apatridie. C’est à dire qu’aucun Etat ne les reconnaîtra comme ressortissants par application de sa législation. Et ils sont nombreux à souffrir de […]

Liberia: Bill to amend Part III, Chapter 20, Section 20.1; Chapter 21, Sections 21.30, 21.31, 21.51 & 21.52 and Chapter 22, Sections 22.1, 22.1 & 22.4 of the Aliens and Nationality Law of the Liberian Code of Law Revised, Vol. II.

Published: 2/Nov/2021

Bill introduced to the House of Representatives by Acarous Gray of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) . The Act, if it entered into force, provides that: children born in Liberia are Liberian (retaining the existing wording) children born […]