By Abubakar Juma Kwale, Kenya: Omari Siriako, 74, is in pain and on the point of despair as he sits outside his grass-thatched hut. He has been ailing of diabetes and has had physical injuries for a long time, dating […]
By Sam Kiplagat Close to 20,000 northern Kenya residents, who registered as asylum seekers to benefit from services offered to refugees, have sued the government seeking to be removed from the database and given national identity cards. The Kenyans, who […]
Due to the continued failure of the Kenyan government in 2016 and 2019 to deregister thousands of Kenyan citizens from the refugee database and issue them with identity cards, Haki na Sheria Initiative will file a petition on behalf of […]
Le Mali, à l’instar de tous les autres pays africains, a célébré, le 10 août dernier, la quatrième édition de la Journée Africaine de l’Etat-Civil (JAEC). Elle était placée sous le thème : » Leadership pour un service essentiel : […]
Le ministère de l’Administration territoriale, de la Décentralisation et du Développement des territoires, a procédé le 10 août 2021 à Lomé, au lancement de la 4ème édition de la Journée africaine de l’enregistrement des faits d’état civil et de l’établissement […]
L’agence nigériane chargée des questions d’état civil et de démographie a dénoncé mardi le faible taux d’enregistrement des naissances et des décès au Nigeria, seuls 43 % des enfants de moins de cinq ans et 10 % des décès étant […]
By Sola Ogundipe The births of more than 50 per cent of the births of children under-5 in Nigeria remain unregistered, accounting for 11 per cent of unregistered children in West Africa, even as the births of 166 million children […]
By Fred Odianosen Itua Dr. Solomon Oseghale Momoh is a Nigerian lawyer and protection associate with UNHCR, the UN refugee agency in Nigeria. He recently completed a PhD research at Utrecht University’s Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE) […]
Download (13MB): Report on Public Petition 41 of 2020 Recognition of the Pemba People as Citizens of Kenya Also at Kenya Parliament website.
The regional consultations organized by the African Union and UNICEF in June and July 2021 show that progress has been made despite COVID-19, but that drastic measures are needed to achieve the SDG goal of universal birth registration. Dakar, 9th […]
Article Premier : Les dispositions des articles 30 (nouveau) et 31 (nouveau) de la loi n° 61–112 du 12 juin 1961, modifiée, portant code de la nationalité mauritanienne, sont modifiées ainsi qu’il suit : Article 30 (nouveau) : Perd la […]
Grace Mutung’u discusses Kenya’s digital ID scheme, Huduma Namba, and the challenges of access and inclusion for marginalised communities. She questions whether it is genuinely revolutionising government services. I recently encountered a young man who was travelling to Nyeri, a […]