Imagine being denied citizenship and treated like a foreigner in the only country you have ever known, the country where you were born and spent your whole life, the place where everyone you know (friends, family, even perhaps your grandparents) […]
Registrar General (RG) Tobaiwa Mudede has said his department has managed to “tremendously” reduce corruption at his offices following the upgrade and digitisation of the registration processes. It marks a dramatic turnaround in a department which had been listed among […]
Benin’s constitution was amended in 1995 to allow candidates with dual citizenship to stand for elections and for the diaspora to vote in elections. There are over 4 million Beninois that leave outside of Benin, mostly in other African countries […]
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-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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sudan on Thursday said South Sudanese resident in the country will be treated as foreigners, revoking a standing policy declared by president Omar al-Bashir that citizens from the nascent nation will be treated as Sudanese in all walks of life […]
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 […]
EXPOSE DES MOTIFS L’institution d’une carte nationale d’identité biométrique constitue la décision majeure adoptée par la quarante sixième (46ème) session ordinaire de la conférence des Chefs d’Etat et de Gouvernement de la Communauté économique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest […]