The ECOWAS Plan of Action on Eradication of Statelessness 2017-2024 is based on the commitments and recommendations made in the Abidjan Declaration, the Conclusions and Recommendations and in the Communiqué, and therefore strictly follows the spirit of Abidjan. The Plan […]
ECOWAS Member States adopt an ambitious regional Plan of Action to end statelessness in West Africa, the first region in the world to do so. Banjul, the Gambia: Ministers of Interior and Justice of the Member States of the Economic […]
By Athuman Mtulya Dodoma — The government revealed that 110 foreign nationals received Tanzania citizenship in a period between July 2016 and March 2017. This was revealed by minister for home affairs Mr Mwigulu Nchemba on Tuesday as he was […]
M. Fatty a lancé cet appel, ce dimanche 7 mai 2017, à Banjul, en Gambie, lors de la cérémonie d’ouverture de la réunion des experts pour la validation du plan d’action pour l’éradication de l’apatridie en Afrique de l’Ouest. « Un enfant […]
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR, Regional Representative for West Africa, Liz Ahua, has said massive displacement in Nigeria’s North-East zone posed great dangers of statelessness for victims. Ahua, who stated this at the opening ceremony of a […]
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR, Regional Representative for West Africa, Liz Ahua, has said massive displacement in Nigeria’s North-East zone posed great dangers of statelessness for victims. Ahua, who stated this at the opening ceremony of a […]
By Elsa Buchanan Humanitarian organisations in Chad have commenced an identification operation to help Chadian returnees at risk of statelessness to get documentation. With nearly 400,000 refugees on its territory, including more than 71,000 people from the Central African Republic […]
Banjul, 9 May 2017 – Ministers of Interior and Justice of the Member States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) adopted today an ambitious regional Plan of Action to end statelessness in West Africa. Gathered at a […]
By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – West Africa has become the first region in the world to adopt an action plan to end statelessness, aiming to help more than one million people without a nationality gain identity papers […]
Experts from within West Africa and outside are meeting in The Gambia to review a draft 8-year Plan of Action which set forth concrete measures to end statelessness in the sub-region by the year 2024. The Plan of Action is […]
Windhoek – Namibia is among a few countries in Africa to have digitalised the National Population Register, which is fully integrated, combining the birth, ID, marriage and death registers under one profile, Vice-President Nickey Iyambo has confirmed. Read more
Etre apatride, c’est ne pas avoir de nationalité. Cela peut sembler abstrait, mais dans les faits, cela implique beaucoup de choses. Impossible pour les enfants, par exemple, de se rendre dans les écoles qui demandent des extraits de naissance, puis […]