Ghana has started initiatives that will provide the necessary impetus for it to accede to the United Nations’ Conventions on Statelessness by 2016. Mr James Agalga, Deputy Minister of the Interior, said alongaside these initiatives, the government recognizes the need […]
AfriForum noted with concern President Jacob Zuma’s announcement during the State of the Nation Address of 2015 that foreign citizens will no longer be allowed to own land in South Africa, but may only be considered for long term leases. […]
Materials in English, French and Portuguese for the ECOWAS ministerial meeting on statelessness. Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 23 to 25 February 2015. Abidjan Declaration of Ministers of ECOWAS States on the Eradication of Statelessness: ENG-Declaration FRE-Declaration POR-Declaration Conclusions and Recommendations E-Conclusions […]
The Economic Community of West African States is holding its first ministerial conference on statelessness this week in Abidjan. The United Nations said at least 750,000 people in West Africa are denied a nationality. Where Sierra Leonean refugees say both […]
Following two days of high-level consultations on 23-24 February, Member States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) adopted today a Declaration on the prevention, reduction and elimination of statelessness in West Africa at a joint UNHCR/ECOWAS Ministerial […]
Nigeria – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission and its Free Movement and Tourism Directorate is hosting a High-Level Immigration and Consular Officials Meeting this week (24-26 February) in Dakar, Senegal. The meeting will focus on enhanced […]
UNHCR and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are holding this week a ministerial conference to end statelessness in West Africa – the first of its kind on the African continent. The event takes place tomorrow (25 February) […]
The first regional Ministerial Conference on statelessness in West Africa, which brought together delegates from the 15 ECOWAS countries, discussed key issues related to the theme of the Conference. Read more.
Nationality is a legal bond between a state and an individual, and statelessness refers to the condition of an individual who is not considered as a national by any State. Everyone has the right to a nationality and the right […]
Statelessness refers to the condition of an individual who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law.Although stateless people may sometimes also be refugees, the two categories are distinct in international law. Statelessness […]
Editorial As dates go, 10 November 2012 may not have a place in our political history, but it was the day the House of Representatives held simultaneous peoples’ public sessions in Nigeria’s 360 federal constituencies – they all started at […]
Nigeria has a bad reputation when it comes to fraud. “Dear Friend” emails originating from the country – also known as 419 scams – are among the most notorious in the world, with statistics from Ultrascan AGI suggesting losses from […]