By Edwin Mutai The Ministry of Interior has petitioned the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) to investigate judges and lawyers who handled the saga surrounding the deportation of Miguna Miguna. Interior secretary Fred Matiang’i […]
Modou a toujours espéré que ses six enfants « fassent de grandes études et deviennent des gens importants ». Mais il y a trois ans, le rêve de cette agricultrice camerounaise de 28 ans s’est brisé. « Des membres de Boko Haram sont venus une nuit à Chérif-Moussary, mon […]
BY Joseph Omollo Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Fred Matiang’i has soften his stand on the citizenship of lawyer Miguna Miguna. Speaking on Tuesday, Matinag’i said that Miguna is a Kenyan citizen by birth and he was ready to help facilitate […]
Last week, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR) published its first ruling related to the right to nationality in the case of Anudo Ochieng Anudo v. Republic of Tanzania, stating that Tanzania violated Anudo Ochieng Anudo’s right […]
By Deus Ngowi Arusha — THE African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR) has ordered Government of Tanzania to amend its legislation to provide individuals with judicial remedies in the event of any dispute over their citizenship. The Court […]
Extracts: On 28 February, the League of Arab States (LAS) convened a Ministerial meeting in Tunis on “Belonging and Legal Identity” under the patronage of the President of Tunisia. The meeting resulted in the adoption of the Declaration on Belonging […]
By Christiana Nwaogu, Patience Ihejirika About 28.5 million Nigerians who registered for the national identity card are yet to get the cards from the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). Most of them have expressed worry that, while the development is […]
[DRAFT BILL dated April 2018, as posted to Ministry of Justice website 12 June 2018] MEMORANDUM: This Bill will repeal the Citizenship of Zimbabwe Act [Chapter 4:01] which will be replaced by the Zimbabwean Citizenship Act which is in compliance […]
By Philip Muyanga The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has ruled that Tanzania violated the rights of its citizen who has been living in a ‘no-man’s land’ on the Kenyan border since 2014. Read further: https://nairobinews.nation.co.ke/news/stateless-man-wins-court-case/
By Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban Kenyan opposition politician Miguna Miguna has issued an appeal from Dubai where the government forcibly deported him to. In a message posted on his Facebook page, the lawyer said he was stranded in Dubai and […]
A Kenyan court fined the interior minister and police chief on Thursday after they defied orders to produce an opposition politician in court, who was instead deported for the second time in two months. A prominent but unelected politician with […]
By John Muthoni A Tanzanian man has spent the last four years on the no man’s land located between Tanzania and Kenya as he fights against deportation. Anudo Anudo had his passport taken by the the Tanzanian government who then […]