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Millions of Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram risk statelessness, UN warns

Published: 9/May/2017
Source: Vanguard (Nigeria)

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 […]

Millions of Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram risk statelessness, UN warns

Published: 9/May/2017
Source: Vanguard

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 […]

UNHCR and NGOs to reinstate returnees in danger of statelessness in Chad

Published: 9/May/2017
Source: International Business Times

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 […]

West Africa to fight statelessness with world’s first action plan

Published: 8/May/2017
Source: Reuters

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 […]

ECOWAS experts finalise strategies to eradicate statelessness

Published: 8/May/2017
Source: The Point (Gambia)

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 […]

Namibia among few countries to implement digital IDs

Published: 8/May/2017
Source: The Southern Times (Windhoek)

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

Statelessness looms in Nigeria’s North-East, if…, says UNHCR Rep

Published: 7/May/2017
Source: The Vanguard (Nigeria)

Mrs Liz Ahua, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Regional Representative for West Africa, says massive displacement in Nigeria’s North-East zone poses great dangers of statelessness for victims. Ahua said this on Sunday in Banjul at the opening […]

Eradicating Statelessness: UNHCR Rep lauds ECOWAS as global pacesetter

Published: 7/May/2017
Source: The Nation (Nigeria)

Mrs Liz Ahua, the Regional Representative, UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), has described ECOWAS as a global pacesetter for its progress towards eradicating statelessness in the West Africa sub-region. Ahua said on Sunday in Banjul at the opening of […]