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Buhari promises to revisit Bakassi issue

Published: 6/May/2015
Source: Frontier News

The president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) has promised to revisit the controversial issue surrounding the ceding of Bakassi Peninsula to the Cameroonian government. Buhari said this when a group of nonpartisan Cross River State indigenes paid him a courtesy visit […]

Mutharika hints on dual citizenship for Malawi: Reviewing Citizenship Act

Published: 6/May/2015
Source: Nyasa Times (Malawi)

President Peter Mutharika has said government is pushing for the review of the Citizenship Act so that Malawians can start exploiting the benefits of dual citizenship. Mutharika speaking when he opened parliament on Tuesday said the review of Citizenship Act […]

Zimbabwe: Dual citizenship: The people have spoken

Published: 5/May/2015
Source: The Herald (Harare)

Nick Mangwana View From the Diaspora This writer was under the impression that the dual citizenship debate was now water under the bridge. How could it not be? First there is Chapter 3 in our Constitution, then there are the […]

Kgafela II and family have no SA Passports and IDs

Published: 4/May/2015
Source: The Monitor (Mmegi Online, Gaborone)

“We are ridiculed as “batho ba Botswana” (people from Botswana) when we claim our legitimate birth right.’’y It has come to light that contrary to general assumptions that Bakgatla King Kgafela II has attained South African citizenship, the king together […]

Zimbabwe: Aligning laws with the new constitution

Published: 4/May/2015
Source: The Zimbabwean

In Part 1 of this progress report on constitutional alignment, we started to list what the Government has done so far in amending laws to implement the Constitution. We began with legislative changes needed to give effect to rights and […]

The Makonde of Kenya: The struggle to belong

Published: 1/May/2015
Source: UNHCR

The Makonde are a Bantu speaking community who live on both sides of river Ruvuma which forms the border of Tanzania and  Mozambique. The community originated from the Northern part of the Republic of Mozambique mainly from Mwende district of […]

UNHCR Campaign to End Statelessness Update May 2015

Published: 1/May/2015
Source: UNHCR

Reports on the launch of the study on ‘The Right to a Nationality in Africa’ on 29 January 2015 at an event jointly organized by the African Union Commission, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and UNHCR, as […]

Namibia women warned against marriage of convenience

Published: 27/Apr/2015
Source: Star Africa

Immigration minister Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana has warned young Namibian women to desist from entering into marriage of conveniences with foreign nationals.The Namibian on Monday quoted her as complaining that young women have misunderstood the concept of marriage which exposes them to […]

Study on Nationality launched at African Commission in Banjul

Published: 27/Apr/2015
Source: FOROYAA Newspaper

The Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) on Thursday, 23rd April, 2015 presided over the launching of the ‘Study on Nationality’ in Africa as part of the events marking the Commission’s 56th Ordinary Session. Presenting […]