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Lutte contre l’apatridie : Le Mali se dote de son plan d’action

Published: 21/Aug/2017
Source: Malijet.com / 22 Septembre

Après l’adoption du plan d’action régionale de lutte contre l’apatridie en Afrique de l’Ouest par les ministres de la Justice et de l’Intérieur membres de la Cedeao, le Mali vient de se doter, en ce qui le concerne, la stratégie […]

South Africa: Child’s adoption blocked by Home Affairs ID deadlock

Published: 19/Aug/2017
Source: The Herald (Port Elizabeth, South Africa)

By Estelle Ellis Desperate foster parents want minister jailed as department fails to comply with the law A Port Elizabeth couple – desperate to adopt their much-loved foster child – have asked the high court to jail the minister of […]

Congo government destroys thousands of ‘outmoded’ passports

Published: 19/Aug/2017
Source: AfricaNews

Raziah Athman with Laudes Martial Mbon The Congolese government on Thursday destroyed thousands of decommissioned passports, too old to meet current technological standards. The destruction was ordered by court, that ruled the diplomatic travel documents did not contain a chip […]

Zimbabwe: NGO helps Matopo villagers access identity documents

Published: 18/Aug/2017
Source: NewsDay (Harare)

Habakkuk Trust has held advocacy workshops to educate communities in Matopo district on how they can get identity particulars. BY SHARON SIBINDI Dumisani Nkomo, founder of the Trust, said they decided to roll out the programme because they had realised […]

Côte d’Ivoire: Apatridie: Un film institutionnel pour lutter contre le fléau

Published: 17/Aug/2017
Source: Fraternité Matin (Abidjan)

Le ministère des Affaires étrangères, à travers le Service d’aide et d’assistance aux réfugiés et apatrides (Saara), en collaboration avec le Haut-Commissariat des nations unies pour les réfugiés (Hcr), a organisé, le 16 août, au Plateau, la cérémonie de présentation […]

Nigeria: Use August meetings to boost birth registration —UNICEF

Published: 17/Aug/2017
Source: Niyitabiti

ENUGU—MOTHERS in the South-East geopolitical zone have been urged to use the opportunity of August meetings by women to boost their children’s birth registration. August-meeting Chief of Field Office, United Nations Childrens’ Fund, Unicef, Enugu, Dr. Ibrahim Conteh, gave  the […]

SADC: Communiqué and Plan of Action of 13th Civil Society Forum

Published: 16/Aug/2017
Source: Southern Africa Civil Society Forum

14 – 16 August 2017 Informed by the theme of this 13th Southern Africa civil society forum on “building people’s organisations, securing our common future, consolidating our gains and confronting our challenges”, we adopt the following Plan of Action as […]

Mauritius to Host African Union Commission’s Experts Meetings

Published: 16/Aug/2017
Source: Government of Mauritius

Press Release The African Union Commission will hold the following two Experts Meetings in Mauritius during the period 28 August to 2 September 2017. The first Expert Meeting will focus on the implementation mechanism of the Draft Protocol on the […]

A Plea To End State-Endorsed Racism In Liberia

Published: 16/Aug/2017
Source: Front Page Africa (Monrovia)

Opinion by Wynfred Russell The framers of our Constitution knew that time could blind us to certain truths and later generation can see the laws once thought necessary can only serve to oppress. It is the case with the ‘Nationality […]

South Africa: Not only Guptas got citizenship speeded up

Published: 15/Aug/2017
Source: Independent Online (South Africa)

By Siyabonga Mkhwanazi Parliament – Home Affairs Minister Hlengiwe Mkhize has indicated that the Guptas are not the only family to have been given special treatment when they were granted early naturalisation in South Africa. In a list sent to […]

Big Read: A tribe, a nation, a people – or just Kenyans?

Published: 14/Aug/2017
Source: The Star (Nairobi)

By ZARINA PATEL and JILL GHAI A funny thing — funny peculiar, not funny ha ha — happened on Friday, July 21. The President issued something called a gazette notice. Headed ‘Presidential Proclamation’, it said it was a response to […]