Au Mali, selon nos confrères de la Radio Mikado, seize ressortissants de la Mauritanie ont été naturalisés maliens à Kayes. La Cour d’appel de Kayes leur a remis, mercredi dernier, leurs certificats de nationalité, en présence d’une délégation de l’Agence […]
By Misairi Thembo Kahungu Kampala. The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) will today commence a three months massive registration of citizens to be enrolled on the national register and for issuance of National Identification Numbers (NINs). NIRA’s public relations […]
32nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly, 10-11 February 2019, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Assembly/AU/Decl.8(XXXII) WE, the Heads of States and Governments of the African Union meeting at the 32nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly from 10 to 11 February 2019 in […]
Alice Munyua Last month, the Kenya Parliament passed a seriously concerning amendment to the country’s national ID law, making Kenya home to the most privacy-invasive national ID system in the world. The rebranded, National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS) now […]
Extrait: Titre III : Des droits, devoirs et libertés de l’enfant Chapitre Ier : Des droits de l’enfant Section 1 : Du droit à la personnalité juridique de l’enfant Article 24 : Les droits suivants sont reconnus à l’enfant, notamment […]
By Dominique Nouvian Ouattara A name, an official identity, and a nationality recognised by everyone: most of us take these things for granted. Yet, for nearly a quarter-billion children around the world, including tens of millions in sub-Saharan Africa, such […]
EX.CL/Dec.1032(XXXIV) The Executive Council, 1. TAKES NOTE of the Reports of the Specialized Technical Committees (STCs); […] III. THE 1ST EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF THE STC ON MIGRATION, REFUGEES AND IDPs, 29 OCTOBER -3 NOVEMBER 2018, EQUATORIAL GUINEA, MALABO-Doc.EX.CL/1107(XXXIV) […] B. […]
Report of the Specialized Technical Committee (STC) on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons submitted to the 34th ordinary session of the AU Executive Council, 7 – 8 February 2019, EX.CL/1107(XXXIV), on an extraordinary session held 2-3 November 2018 in Malabo […]
By Misairi Thembo Kahungu Kampala. At least 2.4m Ugandans aged 16 and above have not enrolled for the National Identity Cards, Daily Monitor can reveal. These include 585,265 people whose application for National IDs has been queried because they provided […]
By Robtel Neejai Pailey In 1973 Liberia introduced its Aliens and Nationality Law. This, and the country’s 1986 Constitution, allow only people of “Negro descent” – those who are black – to obtain Liberian citizenship by birth, ancestry or naturalisation. […]
By Biola Adebayo Nnamdi Kanu, the fugitive leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra has stirred new dust with his latest claim that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar is a Cameroonian. Atiku was born […]
COMMENT Immigration law expert Stefanie de Saude Darbandi, representing a family from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has helped bring about a change in immigration law by taking the case to the high court and Constitutional Court. This […]