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Longtime refugees grateful for citizenship in Tanzania

Published: 24/Oct/2015
Source: The Huffington Post

By Barbara Borst, Center for Global Affairs and Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York University, Ulyankulu, Tanzania Freedom. Happiness. Gratitude. These are words that people here use over and over to describe how they feel about becoming Tanzanian citizens […]

RDC: une pétition pour l’adoption de la nationalité multiple

Published: 24/Oct/2015
Source: Radio Okapi

L’acceptation d’une nationalité multiple par la constitution congolaise est incontournable aujourd’hui pour l’émergence de la RDC, a affirmé ce vendredi 22 octobre à Kinshasa le président de l’ASBL ‘Nouvelle génération pour l’émergence du Congo’, Constant Mutamba. Il a affirmé avoir […]

A borderline case that never was…

Published: 21/Oct/2015
Source: Legal Brief

This was a case with enormous potential to embarrass both South Africa and Namibia whose mutual borders have never been properly finalised. But at the last minute the wealthy farmer who brought the application relented and a possible international dispute […]

Citizenship in Africa newsletter, October 2015

Published: 20/Oct/2015
Source: International Refugee Rights Initiative

In this issue: Challenging Discriminatory Legislation in Sudan Using African Legal Architecture Statelessness in Africa, with a Focus on the Gambia A Significant Step in Favour of Women’s Rights in Senegal How Lawyers for Human Rights is Fighting to End […]

Stateless Africans a step closer to citizenship thanks to UM doctoral student

Published: 19/Oct/2015
Source: Maastricht University

Thanks to an external doctoral student under the supervision of professor René de Groot at Maastricht University, the future is looking a little bit brighter for the millions of Africans living without an official nationality. On 20 October, British scholar […]

Libya: The Forgotten War of the Tebu and Tuareg

Published: 15/Oct/2015
Source: Jadaliyya

by Valérie Stocker In the midst of the Libyan desert, a thousand kilometers south of Tripoli, a war divides two communities that had been living a brotherly life until the post-revolutionary vortex carried away their friendship. The Tebu, an ethnic […]

Tanzania rolls out birth registration by mobile phone

Published: 14/Oct/2015
Source: Al Jazeera

Government hopes to register about a million children under the age of five by the end of this year. Tanzania has launched a nationwide drive to help parents register their children’s births by mobile phone so the government can better […]

Home Affairs gets tough on late birth registrations

Published: 13/Oct/2015
Source: News24

The Department of Home Affairs wants to make late birth registrations more difficult so that it can weed out chancers, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Fatima Chohan said on Tuesday. Speaking during the home affairs briefing in Parliament, she said: […]

Communiqué: a Conférence consultative d’Afrique de l’Ouest sur e droit à la nationalité et l’apatridie : opportunités et défis

Published: 9/Oct/2015
Source: UNHCR & OSIWA

La Conférence consultative d’Afrique de l’Ouest sur « le droit à la nationalité et l’apatridie : opportunités et défis », conjointement organisée par Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) et le Haut-Commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (UNHCR), s’est tenue à l’Hôtel […]

Session budgétaire de l’Assemblée nationale

Published: 7/Oct/2015

Le parlement va également examiner les projets de loi de ratification des ordonnances prises en vertu de l’habilitation législative accordée au gouvernement entre deux sessions. Ces ordonnances sont relatives, entre autres, à l’adhésion de notre pays à la convention relative […]