West Africa Insight Vol.6, No.4, December 2018, Special Edition Table of Contents: Editorial Nationality, Statelessness and Legal Identity in West Africa, by Bronwen Manby Seeing and being seen Citizenship on Sierra Leone’s borders, by Luisa Enria “I am Ghanaian and […]
Despite the hardships, thousands of Tuaregs are settling down in Zuwara, fleeing the war and misery of their restive region By Karlos Zurutuza ZUWARA, Libya – It’s not easy to sweep the streets of a city in constant struggle with […]
Case No.1289/17 Judgment dismissing an appeal against a High Court order that the Minister of Home Affairs should adopt regulations enabling an application for naturalisation at majority for those born in South Africa, as provided for under s.4(3) of the […]
Minister of Home Affairs v Miriam Ali Today, the Supreme Court of Appeal handed down judgment confirming the Western Cape High Court’s (WCHC) position, which provides that children born in South Africa to foreign national parents are entitled to apply […]
By Satang Nabaneh The ongoing public consultations on the constitutional review process spearheaded by the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) highlights a polarising debate on citizenship which reflects the difficulty of consensus building given the varied interests of stakeholders. Few of […]
The Communication concerns Ms Iman Hassan Benjamin who was not able to attend her university education due to lack of national identity card, and further becomes stateless. She was denied an identity card because her late father would have become […]
Time is running out for Ebenezer Odei to get the funding he needs to be able to attend university in 2019. Odei is a matric learner at Grassy Park High School. His parents are Ghanaian and came to South Africa […]
Botul and her four children are members of Kenya’s Nubian community. Despite the fact that Nubians are Kenyan citizens, these Muslim-majority ethnic and tribal groups are forced to undergo a lengthy and discriminatory vetting process to obtain the identity documents […]
By Mathews Musukwa Zambia has joined the rest of the world in a campaign to end statelessness through a decade of Global Action Plan to End Statelessness. […] In Zambia, an undisclosed number of persons mostly migrants, refugees and persons […]
A new report commissioned for UNHCR, The UN Refugee Agency, warns that thousands of people living in the East African Community (EAC), namely Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda are stateless or at risk of statelessness. The report details […]
The Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the poorest countries in the world has one of the most expensive passports and Comoros issues diplomatic passports to non-Comorians. By TAMA MULE Albert Karaziwan is a multi-millionaire who in 1992 founded Semlex, […]
Egypt’s interior ministry has approved requests by 44 Egyptians to acquire a foreign nationality without retaining their Egyptian citizenship. The decision was published in Egypt’s official gazette on Wednesday. The ministry explained that the decision comes per the constitution and […]