By ATOSSA ARAXIA ABRAHAMIAN Comoro Islands is a tiny East African country with stunning white beaches, a large active volcano and a population just shy of 800,000. Some 150,000 Comorans live in metropolitan France, which governed the Comoros until 1975. […]
Burundaises, Burundais, Amis du Burundi, Le projet de Pierre Nkurunziza de changer la constitution de la République du Burundi et par là d’enterrer définitivement l’Accord d’Arusha pour la Paix et la Réconciliation au Burundi, atteint sa phase finale. Ce projet […]
Mustafa educated the TEDxEuston audience about the inequality faced by the Nubian community in Kenya. He takes us through his quest of how he was able to go beyond being a victim to a change maker. He explains how important […]
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Global estimates suggest that approximately 10 million people worldwide are living without any legal citizenship. Stateless persons face overwhelming obstacles that limit their access to basic entitlements and protections, leaving them vulnerable to discrimination and abuse. Research on […]
By Fatuma Abdullahi My child was born in in 2013. We were asked to come back after six months for his birth certificate. It’s taken years.” Yuwil and his wife are from Sudan, they moved to Kakuma in 2006 fleeing […]
« Je viens de Amchidé, au Cameroun (à trois kilomètres de la frontière nigériane) mais comme je n’ai pas de papiers d’identité, mon pays ne me reconnaît pas. Je suis exclue. On nous a envoyé dans ce camp avec mes enfants, […]
By Switbert R. Kamazima International Journal of Advanced Scientific Research and Management, Vol. 3 Issue 1, Jan 2018. Abstract There are several circumstances in which nations, states or governments use boundaries, borders and citizenship as political weapons. For example, separating […]
SATUCC in collaboration with Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLF), and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Regional Representation for Southern Africa (UNHCR ROSA), conducted two national workshops on Preventing Statelessness and Protecting Stateless Persons in South Africa. These workshops were […]
RABAT: Unable to reach Europe in search of a better life, Aliou Ndiaye settled in Morocco instead, giving up on his original goal like thousands of other sub-Saharan African migrants. […] Despite Morocco’s new migration policies and the kingdom’s efforts […]
By Ali Amir Ahmed MORONI (Reuters) – The Comoros government has asked Interpol and the U.S. authorities for information related to foreigners, including two people accused of breaking sanctions on Iran, who have bought the country’s passports to facilitate their […]
The Registrar General’s Office has issued over 680 000 identity documents over the past three months through the ongoing national mobile registration exercise and the programme will continue over the festive season. The programme, which initially was supposed to end […]
Section 20: (1) Section 4 (3) of this Act does not apply to a refugee who is able to invoke compelling reasons arising out of previous persecution for refusing to avail oneself of the protection of the country of nationality […]