On Jan. 9, the Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported that Isabel dos Santos – the daughter of Angola’s former president José Eduardo dos Santos once ranked by Forbes magazine as Africa’s richest woman – is a citizen of Russia. […]
Report of the ACERWC on the Follow-Up Mission Conducted to Monitor the Implementation of its Concluding Observations and Recommendations to the Republic of Liberia 06-08 November 2019 Extract: 7.4. Civil Rights and Freedoms i. Birth registration The Committee notes that […]
Le 5ème Bataillon d’Intervention Rapide (BIR) de l’Adamaoua a remis 120 extraits d’acte de naissance à des écoliers d’une dizaine d’écoles du 1er et 2ème arrondissement de Ngaoundéré dans la région de l’Adamaoua. Selon le quotidien Le Jour qui rapporte […]
By Amanda Lichtenstein Tanzanian citizens have until January 20, 2020, to register their SIM cards through the new biometric registration system launched by the Tanzanian Communication Regulatory Authority (TCRA) on May 1, 2019. The biometric SIM card registration process means […]
By Maureen Odunga and Faustine Kapama THE government has revealed that plans are in place to counter the runaway birthrate in refugee camps in Kigoma Region that result in 600 babies being born in every month. In an exclusive interview […]
By Frank Hersey The use of biometrics by electoral commissions is once again at the fore in digital ID news in Africa. The dispute continues over establishing an entirely new – and costly – biometric electoral roll in Ghana, and […]
L’Agence nationale des titres sécurisés (Anats) a lancé, le 22 janvier 2020, les activités de son système intégré de gestion des populations et des titres sécurisés (Sigpts). “L’enrôlement est gratuit. Toute personne enrôlée peut, à sa demande, recevoir un acte […]
Les services de l’état civil sont de plus en plus sollicités par les citoyens guinéens dans le cadre de la recherche de documents. L’état civil de la mairie de Ratoma, l’une des cinq (5) communes de Conakry, est de nos […]
Plus de 200 enfants trouvés ou abandonnés de parents inconnus, obtiennent une nationalité. Une première historique ! Editorial: Ouvrir les portes de la vie aux enfants trouvés de parents inconnus. Mohamed Askia TOURÉ, Représentant Résident du HCR en Côte d’Ivoire. […]
By Mia Harbitz Introduction The purpose of this report is to provide a brief introduction to the civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system in Niger. The information is based on a questionnaire completed by the Niger Civil Registry along […]
By Fatima Khan Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal Vol. 23, No. 1 https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-20497a5719 Abstract The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees set a 10-year timeline in 2014 to prevent childhood statelessness and believes this is possible if the following four steps […]
Includes the following information from Africa: Mobilizing governments and civil society On 3 October, UNHCR organized a roundtable discussion in Juba, South Sudan, on accession to the two UN Statelessness Conventions. The roundtable was organized in close collaboration with the […]