The men of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Ogun State command has arrested 50 illegal immigrants residing in the state. The state Comptroller of Immigration, Mrs Victoria Isang, who spoke to journalists in Abeokuta, said the feat was achieved due […]
Monrovia – The Head of the Independent National Commission on Human Rights (INCHR) and retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia Cllr. Gladys K. Johnson has defended the “Negro Clause” in the Liberian constitution, which forbids white people […]
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, almost half of the world’s forcibly displaced people are children. A number of factors lead to the migration of foreign children to South Africa. Some flee conflict and unrest, natural disaster […]
Le Représentant du HCR en Côte d’Ivoire, Mohamed Askia Touré, passe en revue la situation des apatrides en Côte d’Ivoire avant la prochaine Conférence sur l’apatridie qui se tiendra à Abidjan le 25 février. ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE, 17 février (HCR) […]
During the many years of armed violence and persecution in our Nation, more than 250,000 of our fellow Liberians lost their lives, the Nation’s economy and infrastructure–houses, schools, clinics, roads and bridges were damaged, and more than 900,000 Liberians, out […]
The Government of Cote d’Ivoire and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in collaboration with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will jointly host the first Ministerial Conference on Statelessness in West Africa from February 23 […]
As of April, eligible citizens will be able to apply for their Smart ID Cards at the Home Affair’s kiosks in their nearest bank, Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Tuesday. The Minister said this when he led a […]
Ils seront des milliers de jeunes élèves à rater les examens du Baccalauréat et du Certificat de fin d’études élémentaires (Cfee) cette année, faute d’actes de naissance. Ces élèves de Tambacounda, de Kédougou, de Sédhiou ou encore de Thiès sont […]
Nelisiwe Mathe does not have a South African ID and her one-year-old baby cannot get a birth-certificate, so, as a result, together they are two stateless people born in South Africa, living in Tembisa. The 23-year-old has been frequenting Home […]
By Bronwen Manby On 10 February 2015 a ground-breaking but not-much-heralded document on human rights in Africa was launched in Côte d’Ivoire by the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. In the wake of […]
The Paramount Ruler of Bakassi in Cross River State, Etim Okon-Edet, has accused the federal government of abandoning indigenes of the community. He also appealed to the Federal Government to ensure proper resettlement of Bakassi indigenes who were displaced from […]
The Kenyan government will by March 2015 grant citizenship to at least 3,000 stateless people under a recent decree issued by President Uhuru Kenyatta. Registration of Makonde tribesmen, who originate from Mozambique, along with Pemba tribesmen from Zanzibar, officially began […]