Home Affairs deputy minister Obedingwa Mguni was this Wednesday taken task over an alleged plea made by Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede before Zunu PF caucus to ban dual citizenship. According to MDC-T MP, Jessie Majome, Mudede appeared before the ruling […]
By NANCY SIAME, Lusaka GOVERNMENT has started implementing the dual citizenship clause for Zambians in the diaspora who lost their citizenship as a result of acquiring nationality of other countries. The citizenship board will now register within six months a […]
The National Database Harmonisation Committee has proposed three years for the capture of 180 million Nigerians and other residents in the National Identification card scheme. The issuance of the National Identity Cards which started several years ago had been slowed […]
Adopted by the ACERWC 2016; approved by the AU Executive Council of Ministers, July 2017 Aspiration 3: Every child’s birth and other vital statistics are registered. By 2040 Birth registration is universal, compulsory and free. All legal systems contain an […]
By Ausborn Banda The Zambian Ministry of Home Affairs this week encouraged all interested Zambians living in the Diaspora and non-Zambians living in Zambia, to apply for dual citizenship, this follows amendments that it’s lawmakers made to the Constitution and […]
Nkurenkuru-The Minister of Home Affairs and Immigration Pendukeni Ivula-Ithana says Namibians should be patriotic citizens and protect their country jealously by ensuring they do not write letters as community leaders or make Police declarations, issue baptismal certificates supporting foreigners who […]
By Chijioke Jannah The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has warned that any person without an identification number from the National Identification Management Commission (NIMC) from 1st January 2018 will not be issued with the Nigerian passport. It also said that […]
By Abdi Latif Dahir Ethiopia’s government has announced it will issue identity cards to members of the Rastafarian community, a religious group that has long been seen as stateless in the horn of Africa nation. The foreign ministry said that […]
July 27, 2017 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia will issue national identity cards for the nearly 1,000 Rastafarians who long have been seen as stateless in the East African nation, the government announced Thursday. The decision means they can […]
C’est un pas important que le gouvernement éthiopien vient de franchir en annonçant ce vendredi qu’il allait remettre des cartes d’identité aux rastafari, garantissant la jouissance d’un certain nombre de droits aux membres de la secte messianique d’origine jamaïcaine qui […]
Members of the Ethiopian Jewish community, followers of Rastafarian beliefs and foreign nationals who have contributed to the welfare of the country can be issued Ethiopian national ID cards. This was based on a new Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs […]
By Alex Malanga Dar es Salaam. Immigration officers from Kinondoni District on Monday interrogated Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition (THRDC) national coordinator, Mr Onesmo Ole Ngurumwa, for one hour on his nationality. The immigration officers, according to Mr Ole Ngurumwa, […]