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Report on Citizenship Law: Kenya

Published: 1/Apr/2020
Source: European University Institute

By Caroline Nalule This report discusses citizenship in Kenya. 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 Observatory: https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/66749

Report on Citizenship Law: Uganda

Published: 1/Apr/2020
Source: European University Institute

By Tigranna Zakaryan This report discusses citizenship in Uganda. 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 Observatory : https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/66750

Cameroun: Ebolowa, l’acte de naissance préoccupe

Published: 29/Mar/2020
Source: Actu Cameroun

Nous nous impliquons dans cette activité des droits de l’homme.» C’est le raccourci par lequel des acteurs de la société civile peuvent s’inviter dans les résidences priver pour des besoins de sensibilisation. Rappelant que la chose essentielle d’un individu étant […]

Botswana: Citizenship (Amendment) Regulations 2020

Published: 27/Mar/2020

Statutory Instrument No. 56 of 2020 The Regulations are amended in regulation 3 substituting for regulation 3, the following new regulation — “Authorised Tribal Officer Cap. 41:01 3. The Minister may by notice in the Gazette declare any Moemela Kgosi […]

Cameroon: Over 10,000 birth certificates to be digitalised

Published: 20/Mar/2020
Source: Journal du Cameroun

BUNEC made the announcement on Monday, March 16 during a meeting with the various councils in Yaounde to seek ways of digitalising archives. For the pilot phase of this project, BUNEC has chosen councils in the Mfoundi Division and are […]

Tanzania: Three Million Switched Off SIM Cards Now Retrieved

Published: 16/Mar/2020
Source: Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam)

By Maureen Odunga THREE million out of the nine million SIM cards switched off earlier due to users’ failure to finalise biometric registration have been retrieved for continued use. New figures make up 36,176, 264 SIM cards which have been […]

High Court of Kenya suspends implementation of biometric ID system

Published: 16/Mar/2020
Source: Oxford Human Rights Hub

Daniel Cullen On 30 January 2020, the High Court of Kenya – the first level of the country’s superior courts, whose decisions can be appealed to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court – handed down its judgment in the […]

CEDAW Concluding Observations: Eritrea, 2020

Published: 10/Mar/2020
Source: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of Eritrea CEDAW/C/ERI/CO/6 Nationality 31.The Committee notes that Proclamation No. 21/1992 on the acquisition of nationality guarantees equal rights among sexes. It also welcomes the efforts of the State party in promoting birth […]