By Arthur Simuchoba This year Zambia took the liberty of observing World Refugee Day (June 20th), a week earlier than normal. There is, however, a sense that, even if unintentional, this was appropriate given that the country was among the […]
Le ministère de la Justice des Droits de l’Homme et des Libertés publiques en partenariat avec le Haut-Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR), a organisé à l’intention des membres du corps préfectoral et des magistrats, un séminaire de […]
(CCZ 114/13) [2014] ZWCC 5 ZIYAMBI JA: The applicant is a citizen of Zimbabwe by birth. He initially sought a declaratory order confirming his right to a Zimbabwean passport and certain ancillary relief. He also sought an order compelling […]
Delphine Perrin. Tuaregs and Citizenship: ‘The Last Camp of Nomadism’. Middle East Law and Governance , Brill, 2014, Migration, Mobility and Citizenship, 6 (3), pp.296-326. ffhal-01395167f Abstract The paper questions the widespread perception according to which Tuaregs’ relationship to citizenship […]
The Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ministry, through its Diaspora Directorate, is conducting a research on the exact number of Tanzanians abroad and their specializations as part of the preparations for the dual citizenship initiative. Moving his 2014/15 budget estimates […]
De Wilde v The Minister of Home Affairs (A 147/2013) [2014], NAHCMD 160 (22 May 2014) Decision in the High Court of Namibia, Windhoek, that ‘ordinary residence’ for the purposes of acquisition of citizenship based on birth in Namibia, means […]
Egypt is working to revoke the citizenship of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior official told Al Arabiya on Monday. According to Major General Hussein Ridi, Assistant Interior Minister for Passports and Citizenship, a proposal to revoke the citizenship of […]
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights has facilitated the issuing of passports to two Zimbabwean sisters unconstitutionally regarded by the Registrar General’s office as aliens Edna and Margaret Silundu of Bulawayo were denied the travelling documents despite being born in Zimbabwe […]
As part of the efforts to finding a common consensus on issues of national development, the 2014 National Conference, on the 17th of April 2014, set up twenty committees amongst which is the Committee on Citizenship, Immigration and related matters […]
The study on The Right to Nationality in Africa was undertaken by the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Internally Displaced Persons of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, pursuant to Resolution 234 of […]
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Commission), meeting at its 55th Ordinary Session held from 28 April to 12 May 2014 in Luanda, Angola; Recalling the provisions of Article 45(1) (b) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ […]
A l’occasion de l’arrivée des rapatriés, qui marchaient depuis le 25 avril sur Nouakchott en provenance de Boghé soit plus de 300 km, des milliers de mauritaniens, hommes et femmes se sont mobilisés pour former un comité d’accueil. Exprimer sa […]