Mos Def’s ideals about a world without borders have been dashed by South African immigration officials. The Department of Home Affairs declared the rapper and actor an “undesirable person” on Nov. 22 after he tried to leave the country using […]
En République démocratique du Congo (RDC), la supposée double nationalité belgo-congolaise du Premier ministre, Samy Badibanga, est au centre d’une polémique. Pour le ministre des Relations avec le Parlement, la double nationalité pose un problème juridique et moral mais pour […]
Par Trésor Kibangula Moins d’une semaine après sa nomination, Samy Badibanga se retrouve au cœur d’une controverse. À en croire ses détracteurs, le nouveau Premier ministre de la RD Congo détiendrait la nationalité belge alors que la nationalité congolaise se […]
Summary This study was commissioned by the Zambian government with support from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) following government’s pledge to become party to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness at the Ministerial meeting held […]
Last week, on 17 November 2016, a settlement was reached in a year-long case regarding former Angolan refugees still living in South Africa on expired Angolan Cessation Permits. The negotiated settlement allows for former Angolan refugees falling into this category […]
Johannesburg – At 23, Dineo Shakgane, a Soweto resident, is unable to open a bank account or apply to study further. She can’t buy a SIM card or even enter a reality show competition. She does not have an identity […]
Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Correspondent THE Minister of Home Affairs Dr Ignatius Chombo is proposing to amend citizenship clauses in the Constitution as part of legislation reforms. If the constitutional amendment is adopted, this would be the first time the country […]
Statement issued on behalf of Non-Profit organisation, the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town to former Angolan Refugees still living in South Africa on expired Angolan Cessation Permits – a small window is now open for these Angolans to attempt to […]
The right to a name and nationality is one of the most fundamental human right, however, a lot of children in South Africa spend much of their lives without this legal identity and the benefits and protections it affords. Children […]
By Tom Gardner LAKE NAKIVALE, Uganda – Nyirahubinka Maria, a Congolese refugee and mother of two, lives in “New Congo”, the oldest and largest of 86 small villages scattered over the plains and low rising hills that surround Lake Nakivale […]
By Nasredeen Abdulbari* The secession of South Sudan from Sudan in July 2011 was followed by amendments to the Sudanese citizenship law removing citizenship from those with entitlement to South Sudanese citizenship. These changes have, unsurprisingly, led to the emergence […]
Earlier this year the Comoros Islands, a small archipelago off the coast of Mozambique, expressed interest in entering talks with the Kuwaiti government. The subject? A deal that would grant Comorian citizenship to the stateless Bidoon population of Kuwait and the […]