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Achieving Gender-Equal Nationality Laws In Africa

Published: 28/Dec/2018
Source: Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights

As of 2018, roughly 50 countries globally have nationality laws that discriminate on the basis of gender. Twenty-five countries retain nationality laws that deny women the right to pass their nationality to their children on an equal basis with men. […]

Malawi: Parliament Passes Law Allowing Dual Citizenship

Published: 27/Dec/2018
Source: Library of Congress

(Dec. 27, 2018) On December 12, 2018, Malawi’s 193-member unicameral National Assembly reportedly passed the Malawi Citizenship Amendment Bill to amend the 1966 Citizenship Act (hereinafter “the Principal Act”). If enacted, the new law would permit Malawians who have acquired […]

Lesotho: 8th Amendment to the Constitution Act 2018

Published: 21/Dec/2018

Amends articles 40 and 41 of the constitution to provide for gender equality in transmission of citizenship by marriage, and to permit dual citizenship (with restrictions on rights in Lesotho). Download: Lesotho Constitution 8th Amendment 2018

Zimbabwe: RG relaxes birth certificates issuance to Diasporans

Published: 20/Dec/2018
Source: The Herald (Harare)

Freeman Razemba Senior Reporter Zimbabweans living abroad can now apply for birth certificates for their children born on foreign soil through the country’s embassies, Registrar-General Mr Clemence Masango, has said. Mr Masango told journalists yesterday that his office no longer […]

NIRA to register three million people for National ID

Published: 17/Dec/2018
Source: KFm (Kampala)

BY PATRICK EBONG. The National Identification and Registration Authority plans to register and issue National Identity cards to three million people at the beginning of the New Year countrywide. Sam Okello, the Lira District registrar says the exercise will be […]

Tanzania granted the largest-ever mass citizenship to refugees. Then what?

Published: 17/Dec/2018
Source: Christian Science Monitor

By Ryan Lenora Brown ULYANKULU, TANZANIA Daudi Nzila had thought a long time about what made this country his home, and he had decided, finally, it was the bones. “When you buried your beloveds somewhere, then that place belongs to […]

Mauritanians who sought refuge in U.S. face deportation, then jail

Published: 17/Dec/2018
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

by Nellie Peyton NOUAKCHOTT, DEC 17 – Mo had nothing but a set of jail clothes and the name of a distant cousin when he boarded the deportation flight from the United States to Mauritania, the African country he had […]

Benin Journal Officiel – Décrets de naturalisation 2018

Published: 15/Dec/2018
Source: Journal Officiel, Republique du Benin

Téléchargés du site web http://www.legibenin.net/ Benin JO du 1er janvier 2019 page 28 Benin JO du 15 decembre 2018-pages-1609-10 Benin JO du 1er novembre 2018-pages-1359-60 Benin JO du 1er juillet 2018-pages-722-723

‘No Malawian parts ceded to Zambia’

Published: 14/Dec/2018
Source: Daily Nation (Lilongwe)

GOVERNMENT has dismissed media reports suggesting that some border areas of Malawi have been ceded to Zambia during the re-demarcation exercise. Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources public relations Officer Diniwe Zulu clarified that no district or parts of the […]