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Zim permit applicants can go home

Published: 20/Nov/2014
Source: iol.co.za

Zimbabweans who have applied for the new special dispensation permit can go home and return to South Africa over the festive season, Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba said in Cape Town on Thursday. He said those with the Dispensation for […]

Comores: De la citoyenneté économique au … terrorisme

Published: 19/Nov/2014
Source: Imaz Press Réunion

Philippe Le Claire pour Imaz Press Réunion Au-delà du réel problème humanitaire qui fait du bras de mer entre Anjouan et Mayotte un vaste cimetière marin, se posent de sérieux défis en termes de sécurité du territoire. Les frontières comoriennes […]

Identity politics at work in Gabon

Published: 17/Nov/2014
Source: Institute for Security Studies

By Liesl Louw-Vaudran, ISS Consultant The nationality and parentage of heads of state is a sensitive issue all over the world, and especially in Africa. For years, those in power in Côte d’Ivoire, for example, maintained that President Alassane Ouattara […]

CEDAW Concluding Observations: Guinea, 2014

Published: 14/Nov/2014
Source: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

CEDAW/C/GIN/CO/7-8 Concluding observations on the combined seventh and eighth periodic reports of Guinea Nationality 40. The Committee notes with concern that certain provisions of the Civil Code continue to contradict article 9 of the Convention and discriminate against Guinean women, […]

You can’t lose what you haven’t got: citizenship acquisition and loss in Africa

Published: 13/Nov/2014
Source: European University Institute

By Bronwen Manby Contribution to collection of essays “The Return of Banishment: Do the New Denationalisation Policies Weaken Citizenship?” published by the European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship (now renamed GlobalCit); the paper was also collected with others in the […]

Tanzania: Parents of ‘stateless’ man told to lodge appeal

Published: 12/Nov/2014
Source: The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)

By Beldina Nyakeke,The Citizen Correspondent Musoma. Parents of the man at the centre of a nationality dispute have been told to lodge an appeal with the Butiama district authorities for the matter to be heard. The parents are querying a […]

Few takers seen for costly Comoros citizenship scheme

Published: 11/Nov/2014
Source: menafn.com

Kuwait’s announcement that tens of thousands of stateless people will be offered citizenship of the impoverished African nation of Comoros has highlighted their decades-old plight. But a representative of the community whose members demand Kuwaiti citizenship rejected the Gulf Arab […]

Kuwait’s stateless Bidun ‘offered Comoros citizenship’

Published: 10/Nov/2014
Source: BBC

Tens of thousands of stateless people in Kuwait – known as Bidun – could be offered citizenship of the Comoros islands off Africa, an official says. The senior interior ministry official told a local newspaper that the Bidun would be […]

An ambitious plan to end statelessness

Published: 7/Nov/2014
Source: IRIN

It is now 60 years since stateless people received recognition in international law, and the UN has two conventions (1954 and 1961) dedicated to their protection and the regularization of their situation. Yet an estimated 10 million people worldwide still […]