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Burundi : OMAN ne veut pas reconnaître les Ibadites SWAHILI

Published: 12/Nov/2017
Source: Burundi AGNews

Le Sultanat d’Oman ne veut pas reconnaître les descendants burundais des Ibadites OMANAIS – LES SWAHILI – arrivés à la fin du 7ème siècle, pour l’expansion de l’ISLAM en AFRIQUE. A Bujumbura, jeudi 9 novembre 2017, M. Nduwimana Jean-Bosco, porte […]

Only Malawians will receive IDs – NRB

Published: 10/Nov/2017
Source: Malawi24

By Bright Malenga The National Registration Bureau (NRB) which is under Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security has stressed that it is putting all  measures to make sure that only eligible Malawians should have a national identity card. NRB […]

Madagascar’s Karana people still awaiting nationality

Published: 9/Nov/2017
Source: UNHCR

By Markku Aikomus MAHAJANGA, Madagascar – Since he was 15, Ibrahim Ickbal, a 50-year-old father of two, has worked in the same jewellery shop in the city of Mahajanga, on Madagascar’s northern coast. Although he barely earns enough to rent […]

More than 1,000 ‘Arabs’ in Burundi may become stateless

Published: 9/Nov/2017
Source: Anadolu Agency (Turkey)

Oman refuses to recognize them while the Arab-origin people do not want Burundian nationality, according to official BUJUMBURA, Burundi Over 1,000 Arab-origin people living in Burundi may soon become stateless, head of the National Office for Refugee Protection and the […]

Citoyennetés économiques aux Comores: l’ex-président Sambi entendu

Published: 7/Nov/2017
Source: RFI

L’ancien président des Comores, Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, a été auditionné mardi à l’Assemblée nationale par la commission parlementaire qui enquête sur les citoyennetés économiques. Le commerce de la citoyenneté comorienne avait commencé en 2009 sous son régime avec un intitulé […]

Morocco’s stateless children

Published: 7/Nov/2017
Source: Euronews

There are many people around the world who are born and die without leaving any official trace of their existence. They are ghosts in their own country; unaccounted for, unidentifiable and hidden. The lack of functional civil registration systems in […]

Kenya: Mobile Birth registration drive for the Stateless Pemba community

Published: 6/Nov/2017
Source: UNHCR Kenya

Fakii Nasoro is here with his wife and 6 children. He’s desperate to register their births, and get birth certificates issued, to make sure they don’t, like him, become stateless. That means having no nationality. View 4 min video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI8O1pGUpc4

Comoros lawmaker leading citizenship inquiry attacked

Published: 6/Nov/2017
Source: Reuters

NAIROBI, Nov 6 (Reuters) – Unknown attackers torched a car belonging to deputy head of the parliament of Comoros late on Sunday, the latest in a series of threats apparently aimed at derailing an investigation he is leading, the lawmaker […]

Sénégal / Etat-civil : 30 % des Sénégalais n’ont pas de papiers

Published: 6/Nov/2017
Source: Senego

M. Diop a fait ce rappel, ce samedi, en marge d’un concours de plaidoyer sur le thème de l’apatridie. L’objectif est d’impliquer les universités dans la sensibilisation. Seulement 70 % de la population sénégalaise sont enregistrés dans les registres d’état […]