Monrovia – The Union of Liberia Associations in the Americas (ULAA) is seeking the passage of the dual citizens’ bill to allow Liberians who have taken citizenship in other countries to come home and contribute to the development of Liberia. […]
by Jumoke Akiyode Lawanson The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has given up on issuing identity cards to enrolled citizens, saying it will now focus on giving National Identification Numbers (NINs) without the card in a three-year plan outlined by […]
Extract: 5.3 Zimbabweans of Foreign Descent: The So-called “aliens” “Aliens” as an exclusionary and almost derogatory category of Zimbabweans is applied by the Registrar General’s office to Zimbabwean citizens who were born of migrant parents. This is despite the fact […]
The Statelessness Focal Points of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) Member States with the support of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency have held their first regional strategic workshop on eradicating statelessness in the region. The workshop […]
Les anciens présidents comoriens Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi et Ikililou Dhoinine sont visés par une procédure judiciaire suite à une affaire de vente de passeports entre 2008 et 2016. Plus de 48 000 passeports ont été accordés à des populations apatrides […]
7 – 11 May 2018 Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire Introduction Nationality provides people with a sense of identity and creates a legal bond between a person and the State by enabling them exercise a certain range of rights. Thus, the lack […]
The Botswana government says it will cancel citizenship for all persons above the age of 21, born to a local and a foreigner, who have not renounced citizenship for another country. A child born to a Motswana and a foreigner […]
Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published 36 years ago, in the April 21, 1982 edition of the Daily Observer. Thanks to Theophilus J. W. Browne for resurrecting this article as a tribute to the author, whose arguments provide […]
A/HRC/38/52 Note by the Secretariat The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, E. Tendayi Achiume, prepared pursuant to […]
By Nico Gous Parliament’s portfolio committee on home affairs is to investigate how some members of the Gupta family became South African citizens. This comes after the committee agreed on the terms of reference to investigate what process the Department […]
Par Delphine Perrin, juriste Sans nationalité, une personne est privée du « droit d’avoir des droits ». Elle ne peut voyager, travailler légalement, accéder à l’éducation, ouvrir un compte en banque et rencontre de multiples difficultés quotidiennes. Or, les apatrides […]
President Prof. Peter Mutharika on Sunday assured Malawians living in United Kingdom (UK) that his government would soon sort out the issue of visa and dual citizenship for Malawians living in diaspora. He was responding to challenges which the Malawians […]