Categories for Uncategorized

UNHCR Campaign to end statelessness Update October – December 2024

Published: 10/Mar/2025
Source: UNHCR

Implementation of the Global Action Plan to End Statelessness Extracts relevant to Africa Action 1: Resolve existing major situations of statelessness In December, in Mali, with UNHCR’s support, a workshop organized by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, focused […]

Victory for Kenyans Denied Citizenship

Published: 26/Feb/2025
Source: Human Rights Watch

Constitutional Court Ruling on Identity System Affects Tens of Thousands The High Court in Garissa, Kenya ruled on January 21 in favor of thousands of ethnic Somali Kenyan nationals whose rights were violated by the refusal to deregister them from the refugee […]

A new home for the African diaspora in Ghana stirs tensions

Published: 25/Feb/2025
Source: NPR (Washington DC)

By Emmanuel Akinwofu ASEBU, Ghana — Nestled in the sleepy town of Asebu, a few miles inland from the Atlantic along Ghana’s Cape Coast, lies a serene 5,000 acre rural settlement. A mud road at the entrance weaves through a […]

Kenya: Revealed: State to use biometrics, family tree for ID vetting in North Eastern

Published: 24/Feb/2025
Source: Eastleigh Voice (Nairobi)

By Lucy Mumbi Family tree verification, electronic biometric capture and school-based registration are among the three new measures that will be used during the vetting of national identification card applicants in North Eastern to enhance transparency, efficiency, and national security. […]

South Africa: Unlocking citizenship: Overcoming irregular birth certificates

Published: 21/Feb/2025
Source: Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr (law firm, South Africa)

Nearly a decade after the coming into effect of various amendments to the South African Citizenship Act 88 of 1995 (Citizenship Act), which included a new ground of citizenship through the insertion of section 4(3) the Department of Home Affairs […]