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Sénégal : Enregistrement à l’état-civil, 30% de la population hors registre

Published: 8/Dec/2017
Source: Le Quotidien

30% de la population du Sénégal ne sont pas inscrits dans les registres de l’état-civil, a révélé jeudi à Saint-Louis (nord), Dr Abdoul Kader Diop, responsables régional au Haut-commissariat des Nations-Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR). Cette situation pourrait les exposer […]

Fourth Conference of African Ministers Responsible for Civil Registration

Published: 8/Dec/2017
Source: African Union Commission

The Fourth Conference of African Ministers Responsible for Civil Registration will be held from 4 to 8 December 2017 in Nouakchott, Mauritania. The African Union Commission, in collaboration with the ECA the AfDB as well as other partners, is organizing the Fourth […]

Libya bans dual nationals from holding leadership positions

Published: 8/Dec/2017
Source: Xinhua

TRIPOLI, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) — Libya’s Administrative Control Authority, the top administrative body of the UN-backed government, on Thursday banned dual nationals from holding any leadership positions in the country. “The Administrative Control Authority instructs all ministries, bodies and public […]

Burkina Faso: Enfants sans acte de naissance : Une éducation compromise !

Published: 7/Dec/2017
Source: News.ouga

Au Burkina Faso, des milliers d’élèves ne sont pas enregistrés dans aucun service de l’état civil. Ces derniers courent le risque de voir leur scolarité s’interrompre précocement. Dans la zone non lotie de l’arrondissement n°9 de Ouagadougou, la situation est […]

Zimbabwe: RG’s Office extends mobile registration exercise

Published: 7/Dec/2017
Source: The Herald (Harare)

Sydney Mubaiwa in Zaka The Registrar-General’s Office will continue to issue national identity cards, birth and death certificates for free until January next year. In a telephone interview with The Herald on Tuesday, Deputy Registrar-General Mr Ben Mpala said the extension […]

A Snapshot of Civil Registration in Sub-Saharan Africa

Published: 5/Dec/2017
Source: UNICEF

KEY FACTS: The births of around 95 million children under age 5 (slightly more than half) in sub-Saharan Africa have never been recorded. One in three unregistered children live in just three countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia […]

Birth registration of South Sudanese refugee children: the view from Uganda

Published: 4/Dec/2017
Source: CRAI Blog / International Refugee Rights International

By Yotam Gidron, International Refugee Rights Initiative In August 2014, eight months after the war in South Sudan began, the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) described it as “a war on the children of […]

Malawi issues 9 million National IDs in six months

Published: 4/Dec/2017
Source: Maravi Post (Malawi)

Lilongwe – Malawi has for the first time after 50 years of its independence issued biometric national identity cards (IDs) to 9 million people. The issuance of the 9 million national IDs follows the implementation of mass registration exercise completed […]