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 […]
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 […]
CEDAW/C/KEN/CO/8 Extract: Nationality 32. The Committee commends the State party on its decision to issue identity cards and title deeds to the Makonde and Nubian Peoples, and takes note of its declared intention to do the same for other stateless […]
By Bongani Nkosi AT 17, Pule Mahluza knows too well he is facing a doomed future and a life in perpetual limbo without an identity document. The teenager from Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, has never had a birth certificate, a […]
Une marche de sensibilisation organisée samedi dernier dans les artères de Yaoundé. C’est l’histoire de Léandre, réfugié rwandais qui a participé, à côté de plusieurs diplomates et de nombreux anonymes, à la marche contre l’apatridie, samedi 11 novembre dernier au […]
As of September 2017, almost half a million refugees —mostly from East African countries, and predominantly from Somalia—live in Kenya. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that while the majority of refugees in Kenya […]
THE Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC-T and Welshmen Ncube’s MDC have jointly approached the High Court, demanding that Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede stops forcing “alien Zimbabweans” to renounce dual citizenship as a prerequisite to be issued with new identification cards to facilitate their […]
THE MDC Alliance has expressed concern over the sidelining of the so-called aliens in the biometric voter registration (BVR) exercise, describing the move as a violation of their right to vote. BY SILAS NKALA This came after Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede […]
by Christine Lagat NAIROBI, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) — Mushawa Ndoro has nostalgic memories of listening to folklore from his ancestors who migrated from Zimbabwe and settled in Kenya in the early 1960s when the east African nation was gaining self-rule. […]
Pour dire non à l’apatridie, des marches pacifiques auxquelles ont pris part les autorités de la région de l’Est ont respectivement été organisées vendredi et samedi dernier, à Batouri et Bertoua sous le thème : « Ensemble avec le Hcr, luttons […]
88 year old Mofat Ngwabi, sits comfortably in his chair in his home in Kinoo in the ouskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Mofat is one of the few still alive who remembers when the Shona people of Zimbabwe arrived in Kenya […]
November 12, 2017 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese activists have launched a campaign to end the suffering of thousands of people that are denied the Sudanese nationality after the independence of South Sudan particularly those whose mothers are Sudanese. After South Sudan […]