On 25 May 2021, LAS in cooperation with UNHCR and the General Secretariat of the Arab Interior Ministers’ Council organized the regional meeting: Towards a Regional Action Plan on Belonging and Legal Identity, in the presence of representatives from the […]
LLM dissertation by Muhammed Samy Ahmed Abstract The Egyptian legal structure has long discriminated against women. Taking nationality law as an example, it is obvious that all consecutive nationality laws have ignored women’s right concerning passing on and acquiring nationality. […]
By Jale Richard President Salva Kiir has revoked the appointment of Afekuru Animu Risasi as a member of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly. Kiir then appointed Hon. Joseph Lual Achuil from the SPLM party as a replacement. No reasons were […]
La cérémonie de clôture du projet “Augmenter l’enregistrement des naissances des enfants de moins de cinq ans dans les Régions de Labé et de Conakry’’ a été présidée par le Général Bouréma Condé, Ministre de l’Administration du Territoire. Durant trois […]
Imagine not being able to vote, get a driver’s licence or even open a bank account. Suppose you were considered not to ‘exist’ in your own country, and being a person suspended in Statelessness. It’s estimated that over 100 million […]
Namibia on Tuesday issued emergency travel documents to the twin daughters of a gay couple who have been battling to take them home following their birth to a surrogate in South Africa, one of the fathers told Reuters. Namibian Phillip […]
By Petra Marais and Charlene Kreuser While SA navigates through the pandemic, the Department of Home Affairs has opened and closed the doors to some of its services, citing the protection of its staff’s health. In the legal sense, citizenship […]
By Franklin Draku The government has planned to phase out the current national identity cards by 2024 and replace them with electronic ones. The announcement was made during the handover of office to the new executive director of National Identification […]
By Zelda Venter Pretoria – A Nigerian citizen will have to return to his country of birth after South African authorities revoked his citizenship nearly a decade after it was granted. This was based on allegations that he had illegally […]
WASHINGTON, May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — AfricanAncestry.com, the Black-owned pioneers of genetic ancestry tracing for people of African descent, today announced an unprecedented partnership with the Sierra Leone government through the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Affairs and its facilitating […]
National identity documents like an ID card are what enable people to enroll in school, access government healthcare, and vote. Under the Kenyan Constitution, every citizen has the right to these documents, yet over five million people face discrimination when […]
Bronwen Manby, ‘Naturalization in African states: its past and potential future’, Citizenship Studies, 25:4, 514-542, DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2021.1926098 The existing literature on the grant of citizenship by naturalization largely focuses on the experience of Europe and the immigrant-founded states of the […]