So, for those approximately 230 000 Zimbabweans who are sitting with their 2010 ZDP permits, the truth will out and the waiting is at an end. Cabinet has decided that “the permit holders [most of which permits expire in 2014] […]
Beware of passing laws that grant citizenship to foreigners basing on marital reasons, a woman Member of Parliament warned in the Constituent Assembly (CA) in Dodoma this week. Read more.
Zimbabwean nationals and people of foreign descent are taking advantage of loopholes in the Mozambican voter registration to fraudulently acquire that country’s citizenship. Investigations have revealed. Registration for aliens to vote in Mozambican elections scheduled for October 15 is taking […]
Strategic Directions for Integrating Civil Registration and Identification This report was commissioned in order to develop suggestions for strategic directions for government—in particular for the Birth and Death department of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, UNICEF and its partners […]
Burundi has started a pilot programme on the issuance of machine readable national identity cards. By LUCAS BARASA East African Community partner states have until 2015 to implement the Common Market protocol which will see people from the region move […]
By Elvis Fokala and Lilian Chenwi African Journal of Legal Studies, Volume 6: Issue 2-3, 2014, Pages: 357–373 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/17087384-12342036 Abstract The question of statelessness is an incessant challenge in Africa. Stateless persons are often denied basic human rights due […]
Responses from the Minister of Home Affairs related to numbers of persons naturalised, dual citizenship and other related issues. Information from website of Parliamentary Monitoring Group, Cape Town, available here: https://pmg.org.za/question_reply/491/ Download PDF of relevant section of webpage here: SA […]
Mission organisée par l’Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides (OFPRA) avec la participation de la Cour nationale du droit d’asile (CNDA) Sommaire 1. Les communautés 2. Le recensement 3. Les évenements de 1989 et leurs conséquences actuelles 4. […]
Au moment où les demandes de nationalité française émanant d’Algériens résidents en France et même en Algérie, ont atteint le nombre des 4 000 demandes chaque année, des étrangers demandent, à leur tour, la nationalité algérienne. Ce nouveau phénomène a […]
Nationality laws which do not grant women equality with men in conferring nationality to their children are a cause of statelessness and a concern for UNHCR under its mandate to prevent and reduce statelessness. Since 2012, UNHCR has issued an […]
Par Joseph Yav, Yav & Associates Plusieurs textes jalonnent donc l’historique congolais du droit de la nationalité dont certains sont liés aux états d’âmes que cette question a toujours soulevés ici ou ailleurs. Car, en fin de compte, la nationalité […]
Nationality is a legal bond between a person and a State. Nationality provides people with a sense of identity but, more importantly, enables them to exercise a wide range of rights. The lack of any nationality, statelessness, can therefore be […]