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Why Rwanda comes to the rescue of people with nowhere to go

Published: 28/Jul/2020
Source: New Times (Kigali)

Joseph Rwagatare The news at the weekend was about Rwanda taking in a stateless person deported from the United States of America. The man, Amin Hassoun, a Palestinian, was reported to have been living in the United States since the […]

Botswana: Parliament Opens

Published: 26/Jul/2020
Source: Botswana Daily News

By By Mmoniemang Motsamai Gaborone — The topical Constitution (Amendment) Bill, dubbed floor crossing, is expected to take center stage during the third meeting of the first session of the 12th Parliament scheduled to commence today. […] The Citizenship (Amendment) […]

Kenyan MP demands accountability for stateless youth

Published: 24/Jul/2020
Source: CodaStory.com

By Rachel Sherman In April, Coda Story’s Keren Weitzberg wrote about the biometric registration system in Kenya and the “double registered” ethnic Somali Kenyans left in limbo without ID cards.  The country’s biometric system was intended to reduce incidences of […]

Rwanda grants asylum to stateless man from US

Published: 24/Jul/2020
Source: New Times (Kigali)

By Lavie Mutanganshuro The Government of Rwanda on Friday, July 24, received, on humanitarian grounds, a stateless person named Amin Hassoun who was relocated from the United States after completing a prison sentence. By definition, according to the 1954 Convention […]

Opinion: plaidoyer pour la reconnaissance de la double nationalité en RDC

Published: 24/Jul/2020
Source: Libre Afrique

Par Me Dieudonné Tshibuabua Mbuyi L’article 10 de la Constitution congolaise, qui mentionne : « La nationalité congolaise est une et exclusive. Elle ne peut être détenue concurremment avec aucune autre…. », consacre le principe de l’unité et de l’exclusivité de […]

South Africa: Constitutional Court settles 7 year battle over citizenship

Published: 23/Jul/2020
Source: Lawyers for Human Rights (South Africa)

PRESS RELEASE The Constitutional Court yesterday handed down judgment in a case launched by Lawyers for Human Rights in 2016, but which started with negotiations with the Department of Home Affairs as far back as 2013. The applicants ask for […]

South Africa: ConCourt rules kids born abroad have right to SA citizenship

Published: 23/Jul/2020
Source: Independent Online (South Africa)

By Bongani Nkosi A landmark court ruling has declared that children of South Africans born out of the country are entitled to get their citizenship. The Constitutional Court has ordered Home Affairs to grant the rightfully-deserved citizenship to four adults […]