By Awa B. Bah Deputies at the National Assembly have unanimously called for the decentralization of the issuance of the country’s National Identity Cards. Deputies made these and other remarks during the adjournment debate of the First Ordinary Session of […]
By Magdi Amin, Investment Partner, Omidyar Network This week, the High Court of Kenya suspended core aspects of the National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS), popularly referred to as Huduma Namba, meaning “government service number,” pending hearings and the resolution […]
By Maureen Kakah The High Court has temporarily suspended a section of the law which specifies punishment for failing to disclose dual citizenship. Justice James Makau issued the order in a case in which business tycoon Humphrey Kariuki who is […]
Today, the Kenyan Government is starting their biometric registration exercise known as NIIMS, leading to the issuing of Huduma Namba ID numbers. Along with our colleagues and partners in the human rights community in Kenya, we are very worried about the […]
The High Court has cleared the biometric registration of Kenyans by the Government, but with limitations to the scope of personal details that can be accessed. Judges barred the State from taking DNA and GPS location details from Kenyans until […]
State barred by court from compelling anyone to surrender their DNA or biometrics President Uhuru Kenyatta has dispatched Raila Odinga and other high-profile personalities to oversee the controversial Huduma Namba launch.The exercise starts today and ends on April 16. Plans […]
When Mzee Kigongo, 76, received news that a local NGO would be offering free medical services to residents of Kwale County, he was overjoyed. He had hoped that he would finally get much needed medical attention for a neglected swollen […]
President Mnangagwa said he would strip dual-nationals who support opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and other sanctions supporting groups of their Zimbabwe citizenship, the latest move by Zanu PF government to deal with the threat posed by homegrown political radicals. […]
A precedent setting judgment was recently handed down on 15 March 2019 by the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division, Pretoria in the matter of Joseph Emmanuel Jose & Another v The Minister of Home Affairs & Others Case […]
Main highlights on Statelessness in Niger Prevention/Reduction Since 2016, UNHCR Niger is supporting in the Diffa region a large-scale project carried out with a partner NGO, Au Secours des Oubliés (SDO), aiming at identifying undocumented children (0-6 years old) born […]
By Robtel Neajai Pailey DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.852 Summary Though deeply contested, citizenship has come to be defined in gender-inclusive terms both as a status anchored in law, with attendant rights and resources, and as agency manifested in active political participation and […]
By Patrícia Jerónimo This report discusses citizenship in Angola. 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 GlobalCit: http://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/62284