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Gambia: National ID Cards ready for issue on October 1

Published: 22/Sep/2018
Source: Office of The President Media Advisory

State House, Banjul, 22 September 2018 – His Excellency, Adama Barrow, President of the Republic of The Gambia, has urged all eligible Gambians to register with the Immigration Department to acquire the Gambian National ID card, which would be rolled […]

FG Abolishes Fining Of Nigerians With Dual Citizenship

Published: 21/Sep/2018
Source: Leadership (Nigeria)

The federal government has directed the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), to with immediate effect, put an end to the payment of fines by Nigerians holding dual citizenship at the nation’s International Airports. The minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau […]

Le Burundi adhère à la Convention de 1954 relative au statut des apatrides

Published: 20/Sep/2018
Source: Xinhua

BUJUMBURA, 19 septembre(Xinhua) — Les députés de l’Assemblée nationale (chambre basse du Parlement bicaméral burundais) ont adopté à l’unanimité, mercredi, un projet de loi portant adhésion du pays à la Convention de 1954 relative au statut des apatrides. Cette Convention, […]

Le Burundi adhère aux conventions relatives à l’apatridie

Published: 20/Sep/2018
Source: Radio Télévision Nationale du Burundi

L’Assemblée Nationale a analysé et adopté à l’unanimité deux projets de loi, l’un portant adhésion de la République du Burundi à la convention de 1954 relative au statut des apatrides et l’autre portant adhésion à la convention de 1961 relative […]

South Sudan Civil Registry Act 2018

Published: 20/Sep/2018

“The purpose of this Act is to record and regulate essential facts about South Sudanese so as to create legal document for use in establishment and protection of civil rights of individuals by creating a data source for compilation of […]

Nigeria: Mandatory use of identity numbers begins in January 2019 – FG

Published: 18/Sep/2018
Source: Daily Trust (Abuja)

By Zakariyya Adaramola The Federal Government says it is enforcing the mandatory use of the National Identification Number (NIN) beginning from January 1, 2019. The Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Engr. Aliyu Abubakar Aziz, disclosed this in […]

Nigeria: The case of citizen Kemi Adeosun

Published: 18/Sep/2018
Source: The Guardian (Abuja)

By Feyi Fawehinmi I was never a fan of the now former Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun. I’m also not a fan of the NYSC programme – as I wrote here in December 2016, the programme is an immoral and unfair […]

Zimbabwe: Gonda to get passport

Published: 14/Sep/2018
Source: Bulawayo24

REGISTRAR-General Mr Tobaiwa Tonneth Mudede has agreed to issue a passport to United Kingdom-based Zimbabwean journalist Violet Gonda, who last week unsuccessfully applied for the travel document because she was “blacklisted”. Gonda, who returned home early this year after spending […]

UNHCR launch mapping of statelessness in Côte d’Ivoire

Published: 13/Sep/2018
Source: UNHCR

By Layse Farias and Charlotte Arnaud In August, an ambitious data collection exercise was jointly launched by UNHCR, the Government of Cote d’Ivoire, and the National Institute of Statistics (INS) to map and improve data on statelessness in the country. […]