By Charles Laiton Registrar General Clemence Masango, who was on Wednesday arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) after purchasing vehicles without Cabinet authority, yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court and was remanded out of custody on $10 000 […]
Cllr. A. Ndubusi Nwabudike who recently got drown in citizenship controversial after he was nominated by the Liberian leader, President George Manneh Weah as National Elections Commission (NEC) Chairman , has finally withdrew his case at the Sixth Judicial Circuit […]
La digitalisation de la déclaration des naissances a été lancée, samedi, par la mairie de San-Pedro. Il s’agit d’un procédé permettant d’enregistrer les naissances dans les registres de l’Etat civil à partir des maternités, à l’aide d’une tablette électronique, en […]
UNHCR issues these Guidelines pursuant to its mandate responsibilities to address statelessness. These responsibilities were initially limited to stateless persons who were refugees as set out in paragraph 6(A)(II) of the UNHCR Statute and Article 1(A)(2) of the1951 Convention relating […]
By Ajwang’ Warria, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Abstract: Migrant children who are vulnerable to statelessness are a growing at-risk population worldwide, and in South Africa. Migrant children often travel unaccompanied or become separated from their families during the journey, […]
WASHINGTON, April 28, 2020—The World Bank approved today $273 million in International Development Association (IDA)* financing for Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger to facilitate access to services for millions of people, especially women and the poorest segments of society. […]
By Francis Dusabe Introduction The halting of the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and the establishment of a new government sparked the mass return to Rwanda by Rwandans who had spent almost 40 years as […]
By Felister Peter THE government intends to issue national identification numbers (NIN) to citizens and residents below 18 years after it emerged that the group cannot register phone numbers biometrically. The move has been informed by the fact that NIN […]
By Felister Peter The Tanzanian Communication Regulation Authority (TCRA) has registered 37,297,930 SIM cards through biometric registration system. So far the National Identification Authority (NIDA) had issued 21,823,026 national identification numbers until March this year. The authority issued NIN to […]
By Brenda Zulu Biometric citizen identification is expected by the Government of the Republic of Zambia to enhance the electoral process by facilitating effective voter registration and identification. This year Zambia’s government plans to begin the enrollment exercise and commencement […]
En la jornada del pasado martes, 21 de abril de 2020, aterrizó en el aeropuerto de Malabo un vuelo especial de la compañía Iberia, fletado por el Gobierno español, para repatriar a sus ciudadanos residentes en Guinea Ecuatorial, bloqueados por […]
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 […]