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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 […]

Cameroon evicts Nigerians from Bakassi

Published: 7/Jul/2017
Source: Naij.com

Cameroonian authorities evict Bakassi indigenes from the oil rich peninsula over failure to pay taxes The Bakassi indigenes accuse the Cameroonian government of violating the agreements reached for ceding their ancestral home The indigenes call on the international community to […]

CRC Concluding Observations: Cameroon, 2017

Published: 6/Jul/2017
Source: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

CRC/C/CMR/CO/3-5 Birth registration and nationality 18.The Committee welcomes the revision of the legal and institutional framework to ameliorate the birth registration process, including the establishment of the National Civil Status Office and the extension of the time limit to declare […]

Statelessness in West Africa Newsletter #13 April- June 2017

Published: 5/Jul/2017
Source: UNHCR West Africa

WEST AFRICA BECOMES THE 1ST REGION IN THE WORLD TO ADOPT A REGIONAL PLAN OF ACTION A new milestone in the fight against statelessness After the three-day regional ministerial level meeting hosted by the Government of the Gambia and jointly […]