(Investir au Cameroun) – Le Haut-Commissariat pour les réfugiés (HCR), à travers sa sous-délégation à Maroua, a tenu du 7 au 8 septembre, des sessions de formation sur la prévention de l’apatridie à l’intention des autorités administratives, judiciaires et de […]
Qu’est-ce que l’état civil ? C’est la situation de la personne dans la famille et la société, résultat d’une procédure écrite d’identification administrative. Il désigne également le service public chargé de dresser les actes constatant ces faits, notamment les actes […]
Le HCR Cameroun, à travers sa Sous-délégation à Maroua, a tenu les 7 et 8 septembre 2017, un atelier de formation sur la Prévention de l’Apatridie à l’intention des autorités administratives, judiciaires et de police de la Région de l’Extrême-Nord. […]
By Robtel Neajai Pailey Abstract Within the last decade alone, large-scale emigration has emboldened approximately half of all African states to adopt constitutional reforms granting dual citizenship, with some provisions more limited than others. Given Liberia’s post-war prominence in the […]
Case number 15566/2016 The Minister of Home Affairs is ordered to provide for a procedure enabling an application for acquisition of citizenship based on birth and residence in the territory until majority, as provided in the South African Citizenship Act. […]
In the Western Cape High Court today, 07 September 2017, a judgment was handed down which affirms that children who were born in South Africa to foreign parents are entitled to apply for citizenship, through the South African Citizenship Act […]
The Registrar General’s Office has begun the national mobile registration for people to acquire identity documents as part of preparations for next year’s harmonised elections.The department is focusing on registration of national identity cards, births and deaths certificates. The mobile […]
Staff Writer HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said metal identity cards will be accepted during the biometric voter registration (BVR) exercise. This comes after Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede said only holders of machine readable plastic identity cards will […]
By Victor Kiprop Kenya has rolled out the East African Community (EAC) electronic passport, 17 years after discussions to develop the document began. The new generation e-passport, which conforms to the international civil standards, replaces the existing national document, set […]
By Oscar Gakuo Mwangi In this article, I argue that statelessness in the Kenyan context needs to be seen as simultaneously a psychological and a physical condition determined by spatial-political boundaries rather than legal ones. This challenges the traditional approach […]
En août 2017, une femme a accouché durant un vol entre Tunis et Nice. Un fait rare, mais qui invite à se poser la question suivante : quelle est la nationalité d’un bébé né en vol ? Comme le rapporte Le […]
The Department of Home Affairs is adamant that a Port Elizabeth couple should have their four-year-old foster child registered as a citizen of Lesotho if they want to adopt her – insisting that she would not be recognised as a […]