By Ayang Macdonald The Kakamega Country in Kenya has witnessed a jump in national ID registrations following the scrapping of application fees for first-timers. The move has also positively influenced ID registration in other counties as the government has carried […]
Eric Codjo Montcho Agbassa (University of Abomey-Calavi) and Renaud Fiacre Avlessi (University of Abomey-Calavi) In 2024, Benin became the first African country to specifically adopt a law offering people of African descent the opportunity to acquire nationality “by recognition”. This […]
Implementation of the Global Action Plan to End Statelessness 2.0 Extracts relevant to Africa: Action 1. Resolve major situations of statelessness In May, Kenya’s parliamentary committee submitted the draft Amendment Bill to the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act to the […]
Par Thierno Gueye Adopté à l’unanimité le 1ᵉʳ septembre 2025 par l’Assemblée législative de Transition (ALT), le nouveau Code des personnes et de la famille (CPF) marque une réforme majeure du droit familial burkinabè. Avec ses 1 113 articles répartis […]
L’Assemblée législative de Transition (ALT) a adopté, ce lundi 1er septembre 2025, à l’unanimité des 71 députés, le projet de loi portant Code des personnes et de la famille (CPF). Ce texte majeur, défendu par le ministre de la Justice […]
Sky Kruger Research Assistant, Refugee Rights Unit, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Shazia Sader Refugee Rights Unit, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Vol. 11 No. 2 (2025): African Human Mobility Review Keywords: Statelessness, Global […]
Former Central African Republic prime minister Anicet-Georges Dologuele announced on Monday that he has given up his French citizenship in order to run against long-time President Faustin Touadera in the December elections. Dologuele is set to once again challenge Touadera […]
Controversies have begun to trail the move by the National Assembly to amend the 1999 Constitution to grant citizenship to foreign investors who meet a certain investment threshold. The proposed legislation, sponsored by the Deputy Speaker of the House of […]
Statelessness remains a concern for the UNHCR Multi-Country Office (MCO) for Côte d’Ivoire, covering Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, and Togo, with hundreds of thousands of people (including over 900,000 in Côte d’Ivoire) estimated to be stateless or at risk. […]
Banjul, 29 August 2025 – The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) welcomes an important decision of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) in Communication 801/2021: Afekuru Animu Risasi Amitai (Represented by the Institute […]
By Lerato Mutsila Sixteen-year-old aspiring national volleyball player Daniela Rodriguez has spent more than half of her life waiting for the South African government to recognise her as a citizen. This meant that for 11 years, Daniela could not do […]
By Elizabeth Kamurungi Several decades after Independence, many African countries continue to contend with perpetual cycles of conflicts as a result of politicisation of ethnicity, the problem which was compounded by European colonialism divide and rule systems, including land border […]