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Gabon : Ali Bongo est-il bien le fils d’Omar ?

Published: 26/May/2015
Source: Le Monde

A l’origine de la controverse qui dure depuis des mois à Libreville, le livre (paru en octobre 2014) du journaliste français Pierre Péan, Nouvelles affaires africaines, selon lequel M. Bongo aurait falsifié son acte de naissance et serait en fait […]

Burundi refugee crisis test Tanzania’s refugee policy

Published: 25/May/2015
Source: Al Jazeera

Similarly, not all Burundians living in Tanzania were convinced “citizenship” would solve their problems of social integration or protection in the country. Had they not been citizens in 1970s or in the 1990s or the early 2000s when civil war […]

Egypt: Marooned in the desert

Published: 22/May/2015
Source: Slate

Sixty-seven years after the Arab-Israeli War, 3,000 Palestinians remain forgotten and stateless in rural Egypt. By Emily Crane JEZIRET EL FADL, Egypt—Ghafra dreams of rain. Not the brief bursts of precipitation that mix with the desert dust here a few […]

ECOWAS heads of state approve abidjan declaration on eradication of statelessness

Published: 22/May/2015
Source: The Daily Observer

The government and Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Wednesday, May 20th approved and endorsed the ‘Abidjan Ministerial Declaration’ on the eradication of statelessness. The declaration was endorsed at the 47th Ordinary Summit of […]

Africa urged to harness diaspora population

Published: 22/May/2015
Source: Xinhua

A pan-African think tank on Friday urged African countries to develop innovative ways to harness their large diaspora populations. Blessing Mberu, head of urbanization and well-being with African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), told Xinhua in Nairobi that the […]

Uganda: Maragoli want to be included in the constitution

Published: 21/May/2015
Source: Radio One (Uganda)

The Maragoli community wants the legal and parliamentary affairs committee to consider their petition to be included in the 3rd schedule of the Ugandan constitution as one of the indigenous tribes. The community members are residents of Kiryandongo and Masindi […]

Kenya: Wajir South ex-MP Sirat to answer citizenship charge

Published: 20/May/2015
Source: The Star

Former Wajir South MP Mahmud Sirat has been ordered to answer to charges of obtaining Kenyan citizenship falsely. Nairobi chief magistrate Lucy Mbugua made the ruling yesterday after Sirat’s lawyer Kethi Kilonzo applied for more time awaiting a Court of […]

Communique of the 47th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Heads of State

Published: 19/May/2015
Source: ECOWAS

Paragraph 25 states: Furthermore, the Summit expresses its support for the global campaign on the eradication of statelessness and approves the Abidjan Declaration adopted on 25th February 2015 in that respect. The Summit calls on Member States to decisively join […]

Namibian refugees’ status ends

Published: 18/May/2015
Source: Botswana Daily News

The Daily News of May 18, 2015 carried a story which implied that Namibian refugees at the Dukwi Refugee Camp said they will not return to their home country. But the matter is that the Minister of Defence, Justice and […]

Zimbabwe: Mudede dragged to court over passport

Published: 18/May/2015
Source: The Herald (Zimbabwe)

A Bulawayo man who holds dual citizenship has filed an application at the Bulawayo High Court seeking an order compelling the Registrar-General Mr Tobaiwa Mudede to issue him with a passport after his application for a travelling document was turned […]

Fulani herdsmen must leave – Minister fumes

Published: 16/May/2015
Source: Ghana Web

The Volta Regional Minister, Helen Adjoa Ntosoo has defended the decision by the security agencies to flush-out Fulani herdsmen from the country. About a week ago, a joint Police-military exercise code named “operation cow-leg” began ejecting Fulani herdsmen from the […]