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Sudanese nationality returned to South Sudanese by court order

Published: 11/Jul/2017
Source: Dabanga (Khartoum)

The Sudanese Supreme Court decided on Thursday that Sudanese nationality, which was withdrawn after the secession of South Sudan, must be restored to South Sudanese citizen Adel Burai Ramadan. The court ordered the Ministry of Interior to expedite the process […]

Ghana: ‘Let’s register children for birth certificates

Published: 11/Jul/2017
Source: Graphic Online

Nkwanta Cluster Manager of World Vision Ghana, Mrs Salomey Yeboah, has appealed to parents to register their children for birth certificates since it is their rights and its denial a criminal act. She said the issuance of birth certificates was […]

South Africa: Home Affairs grants residency to majority of Angolan former refugees

Published: 10/Jul/2017
Source: Scalabrini Centre (Cape Town)

In an historic decision, the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has granted rights equivalent to permanent residency to the majority of applications that were submitted on ‘special grounds’ by a group of Angolan former refugees. These applications were the applicants’ […]

Registration of children born overseas from South African parents

Published: 10/Jul/2017
Source: The South African

Breytenbachs highly recommends that children born outside South Africa to South African parents, be registered as South African citizens at the nearest SA Embassy / SA High Commission to where the parents reside. The application is done using a foreign […]

Nigeria: Birth, death registration may substitute census if… —NPC boss

Published: 10/Jul/2017
Source: Nigerian Tribune

THE registration of births and deaths across the country can substitute for census with the construction of more registration centres, the chairman, National Population Commission (NPC), Eze Duruiheoma on Thursday disclosed. He said the about 4,000 birth registration centres in […]

Malawi the last country standing on national identity cards

Published: 10/Jul/2017
Source: The Southern Times (Windhoek)

By Penelope Paliani Kamanga The move to give Malawians identity cards has entered its second month with only 200,000 people registered out of the ambitious move to register 9 million by the end of this year. Malawi, which is the […]

Former refugees win right to remain in South Africa

Published: 8/Jul/2017
Source: News24 (South Africa)

Jan Cronje, News24 Correspondent Cape Town – Over 1 000 former Angolan refugees were this week granted the right by the Department of Home Affairs to live and work in South Africa for a period of four years. The former […]

Sierra Leone Enshrines Equal Right of Women to Pass Nationality to Children

Published: 8/Jul/2017
Source: Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights

The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights joyfully welcomes the passage of Sierra Leone’s amended Citizenship Act, which now guarantees women and men the equal right to confer nationality on children. With this critical reform, only 25 countries remain worldwide […]

Les mères de Sierra Leone pourront transmettre leur nationalité aux enfants

Published: 7/Jul/2017
Source: VOA

Jusqu’à l’adoption mercredi de la nouvelle loi sur la nationalité, les femmes de Sierra Leone ne pouvaient transmettre leur nationalité à leurs enfants nés à l’étranger, provoquant des problèmes dans la communauté des expatriés, notamment pour les enfants apatrides. Lire […]

Ghana: Bauchi State: UNICEF, gov’t and NPC launch birth registration exercise

Published: 7/Jul/2017
Source: News Ghana

Flagging off the ceremony yesterday, Governor Mohammed Abubakar directed all primary healthcare facilities and government hospitals in the state to establish desk officer dedicated to registration of birth. He explained that all relevant state government agencies and departments are to […]

Nigeria/Cameroon: 97 Nigerians Feared Killed in Bakassi By Gendarmes

Published: 7/Jul/2017
Source: The Guardian (Nigeria)

By Anietie Akpan Calabar — About 97 Nigerians are feared killed as Cameroon Gendermes allegedly attacked residents of Bakassi over failure to pay a N100,000 boat levy.It was learnt that the attackers sacked mainly Nigerians from Akwa Ibom, Cross River […]