Recent Global statistics shows that 230 million under the age of 5 have not been registered, and of these, 85 million are in Sub-Saharan Africa and 135 million in Asia, while 10 million are in the rest of the World. […]
By Mashudu Netsianda THE South African government has denied that it deported Mr Daniel Desire Mncube to Zimbabwe. Mr Mncube (46) claims he was flushed out of South Africa for allegedly violating the neighbouring country’s immigration laws. He found himself […]
By Owen Khamula President Peter Mutharika has said he has ordered his Justice minister Samuel Tembenu to draft a dual citizenship legislation to allow Malawians stuck in diaspora come back home and invest. Mutharika told the state controlled Malawi Broadcasting […]
Members of Parliament on Thursday unanimously passed in to law the National Civil Registration Act, 2016 that called for the compulsory registration of citizens and non-citizens resident in Sierra Leone as well as provide the registrants with multipurpose E-cards. According […]
Action 6 of the Global Action Plan calls on States to grant protection status to stateless migrants through the establishment of statelessness determination procedures, and facilitate their naturalization. A statelessness determination procedure serves to identify stateless persons among migrant populations […]
Citizenship Studies; Volume 20, 2016 – Issue 6-7 By Robtel Neajai Pailey As a twenty-first century post-war, emigrant-sending country, Liberia reflects global citizenship norms while simultaneously departing from them, and this unique positioning offers new opportunities to theorise citizenship across […]
Nigeria’s birth registration is dismal, with only nine of its 36 states, including the federal capital territory, recording up to 50 per cent of their births, a 2016 infographics by AFRI-DEV info has shown. Of all 36 states, Zamfara has the […]
Ethnic Lebanese people born in Sierra Leone are not eligible to be citizens of the country by birth. This is because the 1991 Sierra Leone Constitution and the Citizenship Act says that Sierra Leoneans born in the country who are […]
Executive Council 29th Ordinary Session 10 – 15 July 2016 Kigali, Rwanda, Doc EX.CL/968(XXIX) XIV. RECOMMENDATIONS […] To the AUC: i) Process the drafts instruments (the Draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights […]
AU Executive Council 29th Ordinary Session, 10 – 18 July 2016, Kigali, Rwanda, Document EX.CL/978(XXIX) Including: Informal Consultative Session with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ […]
The African Union is set to launch a common electronic passport that would grant visa-free travel to all of its 54 member-states, a move that hits at the organisation’s long-running goal of more closely linking nations from across the continent. […]
NAIROBI – As the United Nations begins the verification of refugees in Dadaab refugee camp, a group of stateless refugees is worried about their own fate. This week, the United Nations announced that it had begun a verification exercise of […]