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Who decides who gets to vote in Ghana’s elections?

Published: 9/Mar/2020
Source: Africa at LSE blog

Nathalie Raunet Robert-Nicoud Recurring questions in Ghana about who constitutes the electorate have in recent years turned to the issue of foreign voters. Are people crossing national borders during elections truly eligible? Political parties have begun to exploit the lack […]

Stateless kids: SA law strips single fathers of rights

Published: 9/Mar/2020
Source: City Press (Johannesburg)

By Jeanne-Marié Versluis Hundreds of children in South Africa are not having their births registered, simply because their parents are unmarried and the department of home affairs does not recognise the complexities surrounding these cases. This perpetuates the notion that […]

Expelled from the US and now in limbo in Sierra Leone

Published: 8/Mar/2020
Source: BBC News

By Umaru Fofana Saren Idaho said he has no connection to Sierra Leone and had never been to the country until he was deported there from the US six months ago. “I know nobody here,” lamented the 55-year-old father of […]

Uganda: Simplify process of acquiring National IDs

Published: 6/Mar/2020
Source: The Monitor (Kampala)

That a staggering 16.8 million Ugandans – close to half of the population, do not have the National Identity Cards (IDs) is quite worrying. This is proof that the process of obtaining the National ID has not been simplified enough. […]

Born in SA to ‘foreign’ parents, I am a second-class citizen

Published: 3/Mar/2020
Source: Daily Maverick (South Africa)

By Christy Chitengu There appears to be a general consensus within the South African government that children born in the country from non-South African parents are not ‘really’ South African. Having been in this predicament myself, I beg to differ […]

Sudan strips citizenship and passports of 13,000 naturalized foreigners

Published: 3/Mar/2020
Source: Sudan Tribune

March 3, 2020 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan has stripped 13,000 foreigners of their naturalized Sudanese citizenship in a bid to eradicate the misuse of Sudanese passports delivered under the former regime. According to the Khartoum based Al-Sudani newspaper, the decision was […]