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Ugandans now able to process dual citizenship abroad

Published: 3/Sep/2017
Source: New Vision (Kampala)

By Sebidde Kiryowa Dual citizenship has been provided for in the Ugandan constitution since 2009 following the enactment of the Uganda Citizenship and Immigration Control (Amendments) Act 2009. However, to attain it, Ugandans living abroad had to go through a […]

Zimbabwe: Opposition petitions Zec over metal IDs

Published: 2/Sep/2017
Source: Daily News (Harare)

Tendai Kamhungira HARARE – Opposition parties have petitioned the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), challenging Registrar-General (RG) Tobaiwa Mudede’s pronouncement that metal identity cards (IDs) will not be used in the voter registration process ahead of the 2018 elections. Coalescing under […]

ID4D Diagnostic: Niger Country Report

Published: 1/Sep/2017
Source: World Bank

The present Id-M system in Niger is fragmented and fails to take advantage of opportunities to facilitate citizens’ interaction with the public sector in instances where authentication or verification of identities is required. Civil registration and civil identification are managed […]

Syrian refugees in Mauritania dream of resettlement

Published: 1/Sep/2017
Source: Middle East Eye

After flight from civil war, Syrians describe difficult life in Mauritania, telling MEE ‘we feel like outsiders’ despite local sympathy By Jillian D’Amours NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania – Mohamad Mudar Oulabie knows he doesn’t have many choices. But after almost five years […]

Zimbabwe: Mudede metal ID ban triggers panic

Published: 31/Aug/2017
Source: Daily News (Harare)

By Fungi Kwaramba HARARE – Government’s announcement that it is phasing out metal identity cards (IDs) has caused panic among civic society and the opposition movement as they fear this could displace millions of voters ahead of next year’s eagerly-awaited […]

Member States Experts Meeting on the Draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the Specific Aspects on the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa

Published: 31/Aug/2017
Source: AUC Department of Political Affairs

Download: Concept Note: AUC-DPA-Concept-Note-Statelessness-Mauritius-Sept2017 Programme (English): AUC Program Statelessness meeting Mauritius-Sept2017 Programme (French): AUC Program Statelessness meeting Mauritius-Sept2017-FR  

Zimbabwe: Mobile registration kicks off next week

Published: 29/Aug/2017
Source: Bulawayo24News

A mobile registration exercise for Zimbabwean citizens kicks off next Monday the 4th of September. In a media briefing in the capital this morning, Registrar General (RG), Mr Tobaiwa Mudede said the exercise entails the issuing out of birth and […]

One million children to be registered in Ethiopia

Published: 29/Aug/2017
Source: Nazret.com

ADDIS ABABA – Getting an identity card – a practice often taken for granted in many parts of the world – is extremely rare in in Ethiopia, where, according to UNICEF data, only 7% of children is registered on national […]

Botswana: National Registration (Amendment) Act No.11 of 2017

Published: 28/Aug/2017

Provides among other things that: Section 7 of the Act is amended in subsection (1) by inserting immediately after subsection (3), the following new subsection: “(4) The registrar may refuse to register an applicant who fails to provide the necessary […]