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Tanzania: Magufuli — No citizenship for Burundi refugees

Published: 21/Jul/2017
Source: The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)

President John Magufuli yesterday ordered the suspension of naturalisation of Burundian refugees, and said those still in Tanzania should voluntarily return home. Dr Magufuli issued the directive in Ngara District, which borders Burundi, after holding talks with his Burundian counterpart, […]

Zimbabwe: ‘Aliens’ to vote in 2018: Zec

Published: 21/Jul/2017
Source: Daily News (Harare)

HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said persons who, before the promulgation of the 2013 Constitution were issued with identity documents describing them as ‘‘aliens’’, must forthwith proceed to the offices of the Registrar General to have their […]

Zimbabwe: Can they really afford to throw away 3 or 4 million votes?

Published: 21/Jul/2017
Source: Politicsweb (South Africa)

Zimbabweans are so exhausted with the year long struggle to get money, their own money out of the banks, that almost everything else seems of little consequence. How can you worry about elections when you have to spend half of […]

Tanzania suspends granting of citizenship to Burundian refugees

Published: 20/Jul/2017
Source: Xinhua

DAR ES SALAAM, July 20 (Xinhua) — Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Thursday ordered relevant authorities in the east African nation to stop granting citizenship to Burundian refugees. President Magufuli made the directive shortly after he had held talks with […]

Zimbabwe: Importance of birth registration

Published: 19/Jul/2017
Source: The Herald (Zimbabwe)

It is every child’s right to have their existence recorded and accounted for, to get an identity and to have that identity registered. Giving a child a name is essentially introducing them to the world and it is necessary to […]

Ghana’s automated birth registration programme commended

Published: 19/Jul/2017
Source: News Ghana

Participants at the just ended National Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability conference in Accra have lauded Ghana’s automated birth registration programme, an initiative between Tigo, UNICEF and the Ghana Births and Deaths Registry. Making a presentation to conference participants drawn from […]

Statelessness still a Zimbabwean challenge

Published: 19/Jul/2017
Source: ZimNews

By Timothy Moyo Jairos Zhuwaki, is one such a person among thousands others without a clear history of origin, he has lost track of his own family tree and its branches too, and says he has no place to call […]

Niger: le journaliste Baba Alpha condamné à “la mort civique”

Published: 19/Jul/2017
Source: Reporters sans frontières (RSF)

Reporters sans frontières (RSF) dénonce la condamnation inique du journaliste indépendant Baba Alpha, à deux ans de prison et dix ans de privation de tout droit civique et politique. Le 18 juillet, le journaliste Baba Alpha et son père d’origine […]

Birth registration now at the doorstep of Nigerians

Published: 18/Jul/2017
Source: Gistmaster

When the United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF in collaboration with the Bauchi state government and the National Population Commission, NPC, flagged off the massive birth registration campaign of children under the age of five years in the state, residents of communities […]