By APOLINARI TAIRO Targeting more foreign investments, the Tanzania government has proposed amendment of its laws to grant special status to Tanzanians in diaspora, to set up business in key priority economic sectors. Relaxing its prohibitive laws and legislations, the […]
Ethiopia’s Immigration and Citizenship Service on Friday held a press conference with journalists in the capital Addis Ababa to highlight performance during the budget year. Selamawit Dawit, the Director, revealed a major change that has been undertaken this year. According […]
Burnett Munthali LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-In a significant crackdown on corruption, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested eight immigration officers and two civilians involved in alleged corrupt practices related to the issuance of passports at the Lilongwe office of the Department of Immigration […]
L’Organisation des Nations Unies multiplie ses activités au Gabon. A cet effet, les représentants résidents de l’ONU ont rendu public un rapport de toutes les actions menées au cours de l’année écoulée. Le document réalisé par l’ensemble des organisations onusiennes présentes […]
For certain communities in Kenya, citizenship is presented as an issue of ineligibility, and as a matter of national security rather than rights. By Fred Nasubo and David Ngira Civil rights organisations and community-based organisations in Kenya have disparaged the […]
by Zelda Venter A Man who was more than three years ago suddenly stripped of his South African citizenship by Home Affairs, and who had in the meantime lost his job as a result, turned to the court for a […]
By Margaret Ebeshi, Abuja The African Diaspora Union (AFRIDU), has appealed to the Nigerian government to consider the option of granting citizenship for African Descendants who were victims of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja […]
Au Gabon, l’acquisition de la nationalité est régie par le décret 58/PR du 2 mars 1962 déterminant les modalités d’application du Code de la nationalité gabonaise. C’est donc un texte vieux de 62 ans, retoqué par la plupart des Gabonais […]
Jean-Noël Ba-Mweze Pour lutter contre des “infiltrations massives”, la demande d’un certificat de nationalité devra notamment passer par le feu vert du renseignement congolais. En République démocratique du Congo, l’obtention du certificat de nationalité sera désormais conditionnée à un avis […]
By Ayang Macdonald After more than a decade of waiting, Gabonese will now be able to apply for and obtain a national digital ID card. The identity credential, known officially as the National Electronic Identity Card (CNIE), was launched last […]
South Africa’s Home Affairs fails court order, leaving 700,000 IDs blocked amid fraud suspicions unresolved. By Masoka Dube The department of home affairs (DHA) has failed to implement a court ruling instructing it to release some of the identity documents […]
By Caroline Tassot & Luis Iñaki Alberro In 2017, a quarter of Benin’s population was without a birth certificate, and less than half had a national identity card (NIC), with the figure for women even lower at 37%. Among those […]