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CEDAW Concluding Observations: Mauritania, 2014

Published: 24/Jul/2014
Source: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

CEDAW/C/MRT/CO/2-3 Extract: Nationality 32.The Committee is concerned about provisions in the Nationality Code that deny Mauritanian women the right on an equal basis with men to transmit their nationality to their children if the father is unknown or is a […]

Uganda National IDs: Officials battle ‘aliens’ over registration

Published: 16/Jul/2014
Source: The Monitor (Kampala)

Non-Ugandans are turning up to register in the ongoing National Identity Card enrollment exercise in Bunyoro sub-region, security officials have said. By Francis Mugerwa, Hoima/Buliisa. Non-Ugandans are turning up to register in the ongoing National Identity Card enrollment exercise in […]

Statelessness = invisibility in West Africa

Published: 15/Jul/2014
Source: IRIN

At least 750,000 people are stateless in West Africa, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), which is calling for governments to do more to give or restore the nationality of stateless individuals, and improve national laws to prevent statelessness. […]

SA adopts stateless baby

Published: 8/Jul/2014
Source: timeslive.co.za

After a six-year legal battle, a girl born in South Africa to Cuban parents has a country she can call home. Yesterday, the girl’s mother said she was able to sleep again after the Pretoria High Court last week ruled […]

Girl of Cuban parents gains SA citizenship

Published: 8/Jul/2014
Source: iol.co.za

The North Gauteng High Court set a precedent last week when it ordered the government to change its citizenship act to facilitate the granting of citizenship to children born in the country to foreign parents – and, therefore, prevent statelessness. […]

Confusion on Zimbabwe Dual Citizenship Continues

Published: 8/Jul/2014
Source: bulawayo24.com

Confusion surrounding the issue of dual citizenship continues, with the Zimbabwean government website showing that dual nationality is still prohibited, a fortnight after the Constitutional Court ruled otherwise. According to the website the 1984 Citizenship Act which says ‘no adult […]

Police probe 5,752 irregular Kenya citizenship cases

Published: 8/Jul/2014
Source: The Nation (Nairobi)

Director of Criminal Investigations Ndegwa Muhoro confirmed that detectives were perusing a big number of files from the Immigration department, including those dated nine years ago. In Summary Some 5,752 old cases in which the identification documents were issued by […]

What is a South African anyway?

Published: 7/Jul/2014
Source: Eyewitness News/wiser.wits.ac.za

By Khadija Patel In the gritty Johannesburg suburb of Mayfair a family was last month rejected as tenants of a new block of flats when a caretaker said the building enforced a strict ‘no foreigners’ rule. Never mind the dubious […]

‘They cut up my SA passport and ID’

Published: 4/Jul/2014
Source: iol.co.za

South African-born Kim Simpson decided, after a long stay in the UK, to return to South Africa for good. But when she visited the consulate to arrange the move, her South African passport and identity document were cut to pieces […]