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Droit à l’identité : ABLOGUI rencontre le ministre de la citoyenneté

Published: 22/Mar/2016
Source: Guineematin.com

C’est le jeudi 10 mars 2016 que l’association des blogueurs de Guinée (ABLOGUI) a lancé sa campagne #Droitàl’identité pour réclamer aux autorités guinéennes la carte d’identité nationale et le passeport pour tous les citoyens qui en font la demande, à […]

Malian singer named UNHCR Regional Goodwill Ambassador

Published: 22/Mar/2016
Source: UNHCR

Malian singer-songwriter Rokia Traoré has been named as a UNHCR Regional Goodwill Ambassador for West and Central Africa. “It is an honour to take on this role at such a vital time for refugees,” said Traoré, after receiving the official […]

CRC Concluding Observations: Kenya, 2016

Published: 21/Mar/2016
Source: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

CRC/C/KEN/CO/3-5 Concluding observations on the combined third to fifth periodic reports of Kenya Birth registration and nationality 29. The Committee welcomes the adoption of the Citizenship and Immigration Act (2011) which provides for Kenyan nationality for all children born in […]

South Sudan government says people of Abyei are foreigners

Published: 21/Mar/2016
Source: Sudan Tribune

South Sudanese government has said people of Abyei who reside and work in the world’s youngest nation are not citizens of South Sudan but foreigners whose citizenship is in the neighbouring Sudan. This was revealed in an official communication where […]

Sudanese citizens criticize cabinet’s plan to treat S Sudanese as foreigners

Published: 21/Mar/2016
Source: Radio Tamazuj

Sudanese citizens of diverse backgrounds have criticized the decision taken by President Omar al-Bashir’s cabinet to treat South Sudanese nationals in its territory as foreigners and prosecute any South Sudanese without proper papers within a week. The decision if implemented […]

La communauté libano-sénégalaise récuse le terme « intégration »

Published: 20/Mar/2016
Source: Leral Net

Les sénégalais d’origine libanaise qui vivent à Thiès depuis quatre générations ne veulent plus entendre parler « d’intégration » en ce qui les concerne. Selon le patriarche Joseph Atal, les enfants qui sont issus de la première vague parlent les […]

Naturalization in Tanzania: Lessons from the Ebb and Flow of the Process

Published: 15/Mar/2016
Source: RefLAW (University of Michigan Law School)

By James Milner and Amelia Kuch In December 2007, the Government of Tanzania announced its willingness to offer naturalization as part of a comprehensive solution for Burundian refugees who had been in Tanzania since 1972. This policy announcement was a […]

CRC Concluding Observations: Zambia, 2016

Published: 14/Mar/2016
Source: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

CRC/C/ZMB/CO/2-4 Concluding observations on the combined second to fourth periodic reports of Zambia Birth registration 31. The Committee notes the measures that the State party put in place to promote free birth registration in the country. However, it remains concerned […]

‘Stateless’ grandmother in pension predicament

Published: 14/Mar/2016
Source: The Namibian

ALOYSIA Basson cannot precisely recall how young she was when she moved to Namibia with her parents from South Africa, but since she was baptised at Gabis in 1947, she always believed herself to be Namibian. It was only when […]

Libya: Civil Registry Authority taken over by “extremists”

Published: 13/Mar/2016
Source: Libya Herald

by Sami Zaptia The Civil Registry Authority (CRA) confirmed yesterday that it had been forcibly taken over by ‘’ideologically . . .[restrict]extremist groups’’ who took control of its database of Libyan citizens which would have ‘’enabled them to control the […]