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Île Maurice: les étapes pour déclarer une naissance

Published: 30/May/2017
Source: Lexpress.mu

Après la naissance de votre enfant, vous disposez d’un délai de 45 jours pour faire la déclaration de naissance. Celle-ci est obligatoirement effective auprès d’un bureau de l’état civil. Celui-ci doit être situé dans la localité du lieu de naissance de […]

Home Affairs confirms Chris Hani killer’s SA citizenship revoked

Published: 30/May/2017
Source: Eye Witness News (South Africa)

Barry Bateman PRETORIA – The Home Affairs Department has confirmed that the citizenship of Chris Hani’s murderer Janusz Walus has been revoked. The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein heard on Monday that the department has also served him with a […]

Home Affairs revokes Walus’ SA citizenship

Published: 29/May/2017
Source: Eye Witness News (South Africa)

Barry Bateman PRETORIA – It’s emerged in the Supreme Court of Appeal that the Home Affairs Department has revoked the South African citizenship of Chris Hani’s killer Janusz Walus. The court in Bloemfontein was also told on Monday morning that the […]

Janusz Walus ‘stripped of his South African citizenship’

Published: 29/May/2017
Source: News24 (South Africa)

Bloemfontein – Janusz Walus has been stripped of his South African citizenship, his lawyer says.Advocate Roelof du Plessis, SC, revealed this in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein, where a full bench of judges will decide if Walus should […]

Liberia: Lebanese to Contest

Published: 25/May/2017
Source: The New Republic (Monrovia)

A man believed to be a Lebanese national has planned to contest for the representative seat in the upcoming general and presidential elections. Mr. Abdalah M. Housseini was born to the parentage of a Liberian mother and a Lebanese father. […]

Gabon : Bongo va-t-il vraiment naturaliser tous les descendants d’esclaves ?

Published: 25/May/2017
Source: Libération (Paris)

A l’issue du Colloque international sur la traite négrière qui s’est tenu à Libreville du 17 au 19 mai, le Président a proposé d’offrir la nationalité gabonaise à toutes les personnes dont les ancêtres ont été déportés. Un projet complexe […]

Sénégal: A Saint-Louis, 4.000 enfants n’ont pas d’acte de naissance

Published: 24/May/2017
Source: Ndarinfo

La Caritas qui s’est inscrite dans ce sillage depuis années, a mobilisé les acteurs concernés par cette problématique, mercredi, au lancement de son projet « Respect du droit à l’obtention de pièce d’état civil pour les enfants vulnérables de Saint-Louis ». Ce […]

Uganda: NIRA Withholds 15,000 National IDs of Maragoli Tribe

Published: 24/May/2017
Source: The Observer (Kampala)

The National Identification Registration Agency (NIRA) is continuing to hold unto 15,000 national identity cards of members of the Maragoli community on grounds that they are not a recognised tribe in Uganda. The Maragoli community settled in present-day Uganda in […]

CMW Concluding Observations: Nigeria, 2017

Published: 23/May/2017
Source: UN Committee on the Rights of Migrant Workers

Concluding observations on Nigeria in the absence of a report CMW/C/NGA/CO/1 Non-discrimination 27.While noting that the Constitution guarantees equal pay for equal work without discrimination on any grounds and that the Labour Act of 2004 protects “all persons in employment”, […]