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UNHCR Fact Sheet: Ghana November – December 2016

Published: 30/Jan/2017
Source: UNHCR

Extracts: Protection & Solutions Liberian Red Coded Mission: A Liberian Red Coded Mission composed of four officials from the Liberian Refugee Repatriation and Resettlement Commission, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs was in Ghana to vet locally integrating refugees of Liberian […]

Going beyond symbolism: The missing item in the African Union summit

Published: 28/Jan/2017
Source: The Ethiopian Reporter

Investment tends to follow infrastructural facilities. People follow transportation routes, job opportunities and money. Money attracts more money and also attracts talent. But above all, an infrastructure-supported mobility regime is sustainable and irreversible, even in the face of serious security […]

Algeria Issues List of Official Positions Banning Dual Nationality

Published: 24/Jan/2017
Source: North Africa Post

Any Algerian vying for political, military and judicial top positions needs to be holding the Algerian nationality only and renounce dual nationality if such is the case, the Algerian Presidency announced. In total, 15 top positions are targeted by the […]

South Africa: Tsonga schools continue despite problems

Published: 23/Jan/2017
Source: KathorusMail

With the first school term starting this week, it was “problems as usual” at two Kathorus schools: problem-prone Chivirikani Primary in Siluma View and Vhumbeni Primary, in Mokoena Section. These two are the only schools catering for xhi-Tsonga-speaking learners around […]

Chad helps returnees at risk of statelessness to get papers

Published: 20/Jan/2017
Source: UNHCR

UNHCR is working with Chad and partners to ensure the children of Chadian émigrés fleeing war in neighbouring countries finally receive ID cards to start over. GORÉ, Chad – One day three years ago, during a break at the farm […]

Somalia: Number of MPs with dual citizenship falls from 198 to 105

Published: 19/Jan/2017
Source: Radio Dalsan

British Somali MPs have the highest number of lawmakers in the Somali Parliament  with 29 MPs followed by Somali Americans at 22 and Kenyan Somalis at 10, a report by Wakiil.org has indicated. The number of  Somali MPs with dual […]

South Africa: No school wants to take in stateless child

Published: 17/Jan/2017
Source: News 24 (South Africa)

By Hannes Kruger Johannesburg – The 8-year-old girl who was forced to take off her shirt in front of all her classmates because her mother couldn’t afford the prescribed shirt, hasn’t been able to go back to school yet. No […]