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RDC: Cour d’appel de Bruxelles – Arrêt définitif – 2017/AR/701

Published: 10/Aug/2018
Source: Cour d’appel de Bruxelles

En cause de : M. LE PROCUREUR GENERAL près la cour d’appel de Bruxelles, dont les bureaux sont établis à 1000 Bruxelles, place Poelaert, 1, appelant ; Contre : M. N. , de nationalité congolaise, né à Matambra (ex-Congo belge, […]

Botswana: X vs Ministry of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs

Published: 10/Aug/2018
Source: Botswana High Court

Consent order in a case challenging the refusal of the Attorney General and Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs to register the birth of a child born to a Botswana father. The State agreed to […]

Apatridie : le Tchad invité à élaborer des règles juridiques

Published: 8/Aug/2018
Source: Alwida info

Le groupe d’étude et de recherche en média, communication et TIC, Tchad Stratégy Média, en collaboration avec la section protection de la représentation du Haut commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés au Tchad (UNHCR) ont évalué le 31 juillet […]

No South African citizen should be deprived of their citizenship!

Published: 8/Aug/2018
Source: Democratic Alliance (South Africa)

We believe that Section 6(1) (a) of the South African Citizenship Act (88 of 1995) is unconstitutional, and that South Africans are being unlawfully stripped of their right to citizenship when voluntary applying for citizenship of another country. The South […]

Tanzania: Soon in Dodoma: No national ID card and you’re an intruder

Published: 8/Aug/2018
Source: The Guardian (Dar es Salaam)

By Polycarp Machira AS from December this year, any supposed Tanzanian citizen found without a national identification (ID) card in Dodoma Region will be regarded as an illegal immigrant, regional commissioner Binilith Mahenge declared here yesterday. According to Mahenge, relevant […]

Zambia: Birth registration, right of every child

Published: 7/Aug/2018
Source: Zambia Daily Mail

ANITA Siameja is a Kabwe resident and mother of two boys who has come to appreciate the true value of a birth certificate. In 2015 when the process of birth registration was decentralised and introduced in Kabwe, she eventually became […]

Comores: Constitution 2001, revisée 2018

Published: 6/Aug/2018

Article 5: Sont citoyens comoriens tous ceux qui sont considérés comme tells par la loi ou en vertu d’une convention internationale. Hors des cas où la loi dispose autrement, aucun comorien de naissaince ne peut être privé de sa nationalité. […]

Liberia: Dual Citizenship Debate: A Moral and Ethical Dilemma

Published: 6/Aug/2018
Source: Liberian Observer

By Rev. Dr. Samuel E. Vansiea Liberia was founded as a Dual Citizenship nation. In the early 1800s almost all of Africa was colonized except the land now called Liberia. The natives traded with Europeans but did not allow them […]

Is citizenship a tool to silence critics in Tanzania?

Published: 5/Aug/2018
Source: The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)

Dar es Salaam. The latest saga in which the Immigration department confiscated the passport of Twaweza’s executive director Aidan Eyakuze has raised more questions than answers. The main question has been: why is it that some passport holders who also […]

Kenya: Documenting Frere Town’s slave history for the next generation

Published: 4/Aug/2018
Source: Deutsche Welle

By Diana Wanyonyi (Mombasa) In the 19th century, slaves en route to Zanzibar were freed by British navy forces and resettled at Frere Town in Mombasa, Kenya. Price Haywood has taken it upon himself to document their journey and his […]