Statutory Instrument No.50, Supplement to Republic of Zambia Government Gazette 30 June 2017. Establishes procedures for reacquisition of citizenship for those who lost it on acquiring another, based on constitutional and legislative reforms of 2016 permitting dual citizenship. Download : […]
Registrar-General (RG) Tobaiwa Mudede has been taken to the High Court by a Zimbabwe-born British citizen, William Dale Pilbrough, and his family, who are seeking the intervention of the court for the declaration of their rights in terms of their […]
Reaffirms commitments of ICGLR Member States to end statelessness, in support of the UNHCR #IBelong campaign. Download Declaration: here. The declaration was endorsed by the ICGLR summit of heads of state in October 2017.
“L’efficacité de la lutte contre l’apatridie dépend d’abord de l’élimination des causes de la non déclaration des naissances, causes intimement liées aux barrières administratives, législatives, économiques, politiques, et la non prise en compte des réalités culturelles’’, c’est en ces termes […]
Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba dodged accountability on the naturalisation of some members the Gupta family in Parliament on Tuesday. He and his successor as Minister of Home Affairs, Hlengiwe Mkhize, were due to appear before the portfolio committee on Home […]
By Ade Campbell On Thursday 22 June 2017, over 50 participants concluded a three-day workshop to develop a National Action Plan to End Statelessness at the Bintumani Hotel, Aberdeen. 16 MPs attended and worked to develop the action plan, which […]
By Fadhili Fredrick Statelessness is a story that at its heart reveals the struggle of the human spirit to survive, of families believing in each other, and of communities who will stop at nothing to identify themselves. It is almost […]
By John Nditi Morogoro — THE problem of people failing to acquire birth certificates in the country will soon become a thing of the past, as the government is in the final stages of enacting a new legislation that will […]
By Tendai Kamhungira Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede has been dragged to the High Court by a citizen who is being denied permission to renew her Zimbabwean passport because she is a holder of a British passport. Tessa Mary Ball cited […]
ALGER- Un décret exécutif fixant le modèle de déclaration sur l’honneur attestant de la jouissance de la nationalité algérienne exclusive, relatif à l’accès aux hautes fonctions de l’Etat et aux fonctions politiques et militaires, a été publié dans le dernier […]
Press release The DA can confirm that Minister Malusi Gigaba failed to declare the naturalisation of members of the Gupta family to Parliament and in doing so has acted illegally, breaking the Citizenship Act. According to a letter sent by […]
Amends section 5 of the 1973 Act to remove gender discrimination in transmission of citizenship to children born outside the country. The new version provides (deletions in brackets, additions in bold) that : “Every person born outside Sierra Leone on […]