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UN Human Rights Committee: Second periodic report submitted by Angola, 2017

Published: 28/Nov/2017
Source: Government of Angola

CCPR/C/AGO/2 Second periodic report submitted by Angola under article 40 of the Covenant, due in 2017 Article 16: Recognition as a person before the law 142.Under article 32 of the Constitution, all persons have the right to a personal identity. […]

Foreigners do not deserve Tanzanian identity cards

Published: 28/Nov/2017
Source: Tanzania Daily News

[Editorial] It has come to light that some local officials in Mara Region have been issuing Tanzanian citizenship identity cards to foreigners who do not deserve to have them. Regional Commissioner (RC) Adam Malima has been incensed by this illegal […]

Zambia: Government decentralises the issuance of Birth and Death certificates

Published: 24/Nov/2017
Source: Lusaka Times

GOVERNMENT through the Ministry of Home Affairs has announced the decentralisation program for the issuance of Birth and Death certificates in the country stating that decentralisation of this process will help government in planning based on the population Statistics. Speaking […]

CEDAW Concluding Observations: Burkina Faso 2017

Published: 22/Nov/2017
Source: UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

CEDAW/C/BFA/CO/7 Concluding observations on the seventh periodic report of Burkina Faso Extract: Nationality 30.The Committee commends the State party for its legal framework governing the acquisition of nationality and its efforts to register births. It is concerned, however, that 20 […]

Nationwide registration for ‘Ghana card’ to begin middle of 2018

Published: 19/Nov/2017
Source: Ghanaweb

The nationwide registration for the national identity card (Ghana card) is to begin latest by the middle of 2018. The acting Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Professor Ken Attafuah, gave the hint to journalists after the passage […]

Zimbabwe: BVR Diaries: Issue of regularising citizenship clarified

Published: 19/Nov/2017
Source: Bulawayo24 / Zimbabwe Peace Project

by Stephen Jakes The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has received reports especially from mining towns and farming communities where people who have their origins in some countries in Southern Africa in particular Zambia and Malawi are failing to regularise their […]

Kenya: The Pemba people struggle to belong in the land they call home

Published: 17/Nov/2017
Source: The Nation (Kenya)

By TOM MWIRARIA The 14th century was a golden age in the East African coast. It was also the age of discovery. The coast was one belt. It stretched from Zanzibar, Pemba, and Mombasa to Malindi. During that period, the […]

Cameroun: Extrême-Nord – PNUD : 17 000 actes de naissance remis aux populations

Published: 17/Nov/2017
Source: CN Chateau News

Fruit d’une coopération entre le PNUD et le MINFOPRA, cette cérémonie de remise des actes de naissance s’est déroulée le vendredi 10 Novembre dernier à Maroua en présence des principaux bénéficiaires. Ils sont bien heureux, les nouveaux bénéficiaires d’acte de naissance, souvent considéré comme le […]