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Kenya denies IDs to Somalis amidst diplomatic rift with Somalia

Published: 27/Mar/2021
Source: Horn Observer (Mogadishu)

NAIROBI (HORN OBSERVER) – Kenya authorities on Friday denied IDs to hundreds of Somali people who lived in Kenya’s coastal region for more than thirty years barely two days after the East Africa nation ordered UN to draft a plan […]

Namibia: Judgement over twins stranded in SA slated for April

Published: 26/Mar/2021
Source: Informante.na (Windhoek)

Eba Kandovazu THE High Court will on 19 April 2021 deliver judgment on whether or not twin baby girls that were born via surrogacy in South Africa will be granted permission to enter Namibia. The names of the twins’ parents, […]

Cameroun: Des actes d’état civil pour tous !

Published: 25/Mar/2021
Source: CRTV

Le Projet d’appui de la modernisation de l’état civil, PAMEC, a organisé le clou d’une campagne de sensibilisation en faveur de la délivrance des actes d’état civil le 19 mars 2021 à Yaoundé grâce à la coopération allemande au développement. […]

Namibia: Parents of stateless twins take case to high court

Published: 25/Mar/2021
Source: Informante.na (Windhoek)

By Eba Kandovazu THE parents of twin babies, Paula and Maya, have approached the High Court in Windhoek to seek an order that will compel the Namibian Government to grant the newborn pair citizenship. Guillermo Delgado was accompanied by his […]

Libya’s forgotten ones

Published: 23/Mar/2021
Source: Zenith Magazine (Berlin)

By Ghady Abdulaziz Tens of thousands of stateless people live in Libya. Successive governments have been holding out the prospect of citizenship to them for decades – and complicate everything ever more. The family of Yousef Abdulkareem, a 54-year-old teacher, […]

Report on Citizenship Law : The Gambia

Published: 23/Mar/2021
Source: GLOBALCIT, European University Institute

By Gaye Sowe and Maria Saine This report is organised as follows. The first part sets out the historical background of the legal framework of the Gambia’s citizenship regime. It looks at both the colonial history and the constitutional history […]

‘Legal identity for all’: What’s at stake for democracy in Africa

Published: 21/Mar/2021
Source: Democracy in Africa

By Bronwen Manby In September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), painstakingly elaborated by the combined mass of global development actors, established the target that states should, by 2030, ‘provide legal identity for all, including birth registration’. The SDG target […]

Zimbabwe: Shock over high numbers of stateless learners in Matabeleland

Published: 21/Mar/2021
Source: Bulawayo24

AS many as 300 out of 700 learners at a primary school in Kezi, Matabeleland South province, were found to have no identity documents during a fact-finding mission by a Parliamentary committee, rendering them stateless. This was revealed by Umzingwane […]