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Rwanda: Local Officials Resolve to Speed Up Adoption of Irembo E-Govt Services

Published: 26/Aug/2016
Source: The New Times (Kigali)

By Remy Niyingize On Wednesday, local government officials held discussions with RwandaOnline Platform Limited on how to speed up adoption of online services delivered through Irembo Platform. Since July 2015, Rwandans have been able to apply and pay for Government […]

Liberia: Lawmakers to Support NBIS

Published: 24/Aug/2016
Source: Daily Observer (Monrovia)

Members of the Senate have expressed their commitment to support the production of a National Biometric Identification System Cards (NBIS) for citizens in the country. The lawmakers, who attended a two-day legislative retreat organized by the National Identification Registry (NIR) […]

Walus likely to lose his SA citizenship

Published: 24/Aug/2016
Source: Independent Online (South Africa)

By Louise Flanagan Johannesburg – Convicted killer Janusz Walus is on the way to losing his South African citizenship, so if he’s paroled he won’t see much of South Africa. On Tuesday, the Department of Home Affairs confirmed that officials […]

Tanzania: State Considering Dual Citizenship for Diaspora

Published: 24/Aug/2016
Source: Tanzania Daily News

By Lydia Shekighenda The government has started giving special consideration to Tanzanians living abroad to exploit various opportunities available in the country as it contemplates on duo citizenship. Foreign Affairs and East African Co-operation’s Head of Communications, Mindi Kasiga revealed […]

Sudan: Mazin Adil Ali Deng and others v. Ministry of Interior and another

Published: 23/Aug/2016
Source: Sudan Constitutional Court

Judgement of the Sudan Constitutional Court in which it was held that the children of a Sudanese mother and South Sudanese father who lost nationality on the secession of South Sudan had the right to Sudanese nationality. The Court judgement […]

State discrimination against Kenyan Nubians is an abuse of rights

Published: 21/Aug/2016
Source: The Nation (Nairobi)

They have been denied national identity cards and passports for more than a century. In Summary After independence, tribe became the main factor determining which groups and regions would be allocated public resources. Those belonging to non-indigenous ethnic groups were […]