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Tanzania: Three Dragged to Court for Citizenship Forgery

Published: 24/Mar/2019
Source: Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam)

By Meddy Mulisa in Bukoba THREE people, including a village chairman have been taken to court for allegedly conspiring to forge citizenship certificates to non-nationals, the Kagera Regional Immigration Officer (RIO), Mr Pendo Buteng’e has disclosed. He named the accused […]

Tanzania: Controversy as two students held over citizenship

Published: 24/Mar/2019
Source: The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)

By Peter Saramba and Phinias Bashaya Mwanza/Bukoba. One of the students arrested in the country for allegedly benefiting from loans offered by the Higher Students Loans Board (HESLB) despite being a foreign national has said she always regarded herself as […]

Zimbabwe: ZHRC to conduct public hearings on IDs, passports

Published: 22/Mar/2019
Source: Daily News (Harare)

By Nokuthaba Nkomo The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has channelled a budget of over $800 000 to probe and address challenges being experienced in accessing identity documents. Speaking during a press conference on Wednesday, ZHRC chairperson Elasto Mugwadi said […]

Le Cameroun lance un programme de modernisation de son état civil

Published: 22/Mar/2019
Source: Agence Camerounaise de presse

Dans certaines localités au Cameroun, les registres d’état civil laissent à désirer parce que manuellement tenus. Certains documents établis dans les mairies regorgent d’importantes lacunes en termes de qualité. «Des problèmes qui, très souvent, relèvent de leur mauvaise tenue», rapporte […]

Namibia minister slams Zimbos over marriages of convenience with his people

Published: 21/Mar/2019
Source: New Zimbabwe

NAMIBIA’S Home Affairs minister has slammed Zimbabweans and other foreign nationals who are in the tendency of entering into marriages of convenience with his compatriots in order to qualify for Namibian citizenship. Speaking during his annual address to home affairs […]

Zimbabwe: Matabeleland region hit hard by lack of access to identity documents

Published: 21/Mar/2019
Source: Center for Innovation and Technology (CITE), Bulawayo

BY NOMAQHAWE NDLOVU Brian Ngwenya* was born to Zimbabwean parents in South Africa 15 years ago, but he was forced to relocate to Zimbabwe after his father died and his mother developed a mental illness. Ngwenya said he had to […]

South Africa: Gigaba was ‘incorrect’ to naturalise Guptas, committee finds

Published: 18/Mar/2019
Source: Mail & Guardian (South Africa)

By Jan Gerber The parliamentary portfolio committee on home affairs has found that former Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba was “incorrect” in granting members of the controversial Gupta family early naturalisation, but did not recommend any sanctions. The committee recommended […]