By Malik Sullemana The Supreme Court will on June 23, 2020 deliver judgement on whether or not the existing voters’ identification card should be used as form of identification in the upcoming mass voters’ registration exercise later this month. On […]
Par: Tsilaviny Randriamanga Une nouvelle proposition de loi sur le cas des femmes apatrides et de leurs enfants, modifiant le «Code de nationalité malagasy» est actuellement en étude au niveau du Sénat. A noter que la loi malagasy ne reconnaît […]
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), representing the Centre for Child Law (CCL), yesterday filed an application with the Constitutional Court asking the court to fix a historical wrong done to both children and fathers in South Africa. Lawyers for Human […]
By Henry Karmo Monrovia – Senator Abraham Darius Dillon (LP, Montserrado County) has called for the intervention of the Liberian Senate in getting Cllr. Ndubuisi Nwabudike out of the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) over controversies surrounding his Liberian citizenship. Senator […]
By Samuel Akapule Bolgatanga — Civil society organisations (CSOs) in the Upper East Region, have expressed misgivings about the decision of the Electoral Commission (EC) to use Ghana card and passport as requirement for registration for the new voters’ identification […]
The National Identification Authority (NIA) will from today commence issuance of 3,875,441 Ghana cards to applicants in 5,635 registration centres across the country. The exercise, according to a statement signed and issued in Accra on June 5 by Assistant Commissioner […]
President Museveni has sacked the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) Executive Director Judy Obitre-Gama over alleged incompetence and corruption by the Authority. The NIRA board had written to President Museveni prior, citing that Obitre-Gama’s contract was about to expire, […]
Pendant trois (3) mois, les Ivoiriens et Ivoiriennes âgées de 16 ans et plus, pourront se faire établir gratuitement leurs différentes pièces administratives nécessaires pour l’établissement de leur carte d’identité et/ou leur permettra de s’inscrire sur la liste électorale pour […]
Gagnoa – Un Comité sous-préfectoral de promotion des déclarations des faits d’Etat civil et de Lutte contre l’Apatridie (CLAPEC) a été officiellement mis en place mercredi à Ouragahio (17 km de Gagnoa), sous l’autorité du sous-préfet et la houlette de […]
Columnist: Nukunu Foga As Electoral Commission of Ghana prepares to embark on voter registration for the 2020 general elections, some misguided or misinformed Ghanaians have started pointing figures at some Ghanaians calling them foreigners. For instance, a cousin to the […]
By Bronwen Manby More than one third of global migration has low and middle income countries as the destination; three-quarters of the global refugee population is hosted by countries in Africa, Asia or Latin America and the Caribbean. Yet few […]
By Mthabisi Tshuma SOME rural folk in Zimbabwe remain excluded from social amenities due to the lack of official identity documents. Birth registration allows one to enjoy a lot of other rights such as the right to education, health, social […]