Extracts: Mobilizing governments and civil society From 2 to 5 March, in Rubavu, Rwanda, UNHCR and the newly established Government Taskforce on Statelessness convened to discuss statelessness eradication and methodologies to identify stateless persons. In line with the pledges made […]
Digital identity programs in jurisdictions with weak privacy regulations face the risk of commodification, breach and misuse. This risk is exacerbated when governments link digital identity with citizenship, voting rights, public services, and employment. This piece discusses Kenya’s digital identity […]
Les Ivoiriens peuvent continuer de fréquenter les centres d’enrôlement pour l’obtention de la carte nationale d’identité. Le ministre de l’Administration du territoire et de la décentralisation, Sidiki Diakité l’a affirmé samedi dernier au journal de 20h de la Rti. “L’état […]
By Zecharias Fasil This report discusses citizenship in Ethiopia. It explores the history of citizenship in this country, modes of acquisition and loss, and current debates and reform plans regarding citizenship policy. Download: https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/66827
by Peter Fabricius Pretoria is not happy with a Moroccan article condemning its ‘sclerotic, ideological position’ on what it calls ‘the last colony on the African continent’. A new spat has erupted between South Africa and Morocco in their long-running […]
By Christine Hobden (University of Fort Hare), GLOBALCIT collaborator. In June 2019, a South African Non-Profit Organisation, Lawyers for Human Rights, applied to the South African Constitutional Court for confirmation of a High Court order declaring unconstitutional the provisions of […]
An article in the Journal of Borderlands Studies written by Inocent Moyo argues that the South African and Zimbabwean governments may learn from progressive examples and recognise border citizens. “If this does not succeed, it will mean that citizenship and sovereignty which […]
By Keren Weitzberg A government program for citizens and refugees highlights the pitfalls of humanitarian biometrics Amina Ali Adan was born in the Kenyan town of Garissa, 65 miles away from Dadaab, one of the world’s largest refugee camps, situated […]
Gerald C. Koinyeneh Monrovia – Lawyers representing the rejected nominee for the Chairperson position of Liberia’s National Elections Commission, Cllr. Ndubusi Nwabudike have filed an application at the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court known as the Civil Law Court against the […]
By Mzilikazi wa Africa, Zweli Dlamini and Karabo Ngoepe Johannesburg – eSwatini prime minister Ambrose Mandulo Dlamini is embroiled in a citizenship scandal after he allegedly used fraudulent and corrupt means to acquire a “bogus” South African identity document and […]
By Alpha Daffae Senkpeni Monrovia – The Liberia National Bar Association has setup a committee “to review statements” made by the Commissioner-designate of the National Elections Commission, Cllr. A. Ndubisi Nwabudike during his confirmation proceedings at the Liberian Senate. The […]
By Caroline Nalule and Anna Nambooze This report discusses citizenship in Tanzania. It explores the history of citizenship in this country, modes of acquisition and loss, and current debates and reform plans regarding citizenship policy. Download from EUI Global Citizenship […]