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Kenya: Makonde celebrate citizenship while other stateless people cry foul

Published: 3/Feb/2017
Source: Kenya News Agency

As the Makonde community at the Coast celebrate their acquisition of Kenyan citizenship, other stateless people in the region are appealing to the government to also address their plight. The Wapemba, Rwandese and Burundians who also live in Kwale County […]

La mère a enfin le droit de transmettre sa nationalité malagasy

Published: 3/Feb/2017
Source: Madagascar Tribune

Par Yvan Andriamanga Après de très long et âpre combat, les défenseurs de droit de la femme ont gagné enfin une bataille. La Haute Cour Constitutionnelle a enfin validé la modification de la loi portant Code de nationalité malagasy. La modification […]

Objectif : moderniser l’Etat civil en Guinée

Published: 3/Feb/2017
Source: UNICEF

La Direction nationale de l’état civil a bénéficié d’un matériel d’appui financé par l’Union européenne dans le cadre du projet de réforme et de modernisation du système d’état civil en Guinée, particulièrement dans la région de N’Zérékoré. La remise a […]

Botswana to allow dual citizenship

Published: 3/Feb/2017
Source: Mmegi (Botswana)

OARABILE MOSIKARE Minister of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs, Edwin Batshu intends to present to Parliament a Bill to amend the Citizenship Act in order to allow for dual citizenship in certain restricted circumstances. The objective of the Bill is […]

Namibia: Okakoko villagers receive IDs

Published: 2/Feb/2017
Source: New Era (Windhoek)

Loide Jason Okakoko-A group of San community members from Okakoko village on the outskirts of Omuthiya who have been without national documents for years got their national documents on Monday from Home Affairs and Immigration. New Era visited the destitute […]

Sierra Leone News: NEC inspects registration kit

Published: 1/Feb/2017
Source: Awoko (Freetown)

The National Civil registration Authority (NCRA), National Electoral Commission (NEC) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, on Tuesday, paid a visit to the warehouse that hosts the national biometric registrations kits. The kits, according to the Director General of the […]

Malawi: Demographic and Health Survey 2015-16

Published: 1/Feb/2017
Source: DHS Program

2.7 BIRTH REGISTRATION In 2009, the Malawian Parliament passed the National Registration Act of 2009. The law states that a parent must register a child’s birth within 6 weeks. In the parents’ absence, others must take responsibility for registering the […]

End to decades of uncertainty for Makonde as they get Kenyan IDs

Published: 31/Jan/2017
Source: Daily Nation

There was excitement in Makongeni Village in Msambweni, Kwale County on Monday afternoon as more than 400 members of the Makonde community prepared to receive their first Kenyan national identity cards, documents they have yearned to have for decades. The community’s […]

Zimbabwe: Children Without Birth Certificates; A Cause For concern

Published: 30/Jan/2017
Source: Zimbabwe Development Democracy Trust

Bulawayo – A birth certificate is an essential document that one should not struggle to obtain as it lays the foundation to the validity of the status of the individual, particularly for children as they grow up in the modern […]