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 […]
Zannah Bassar, a Muslim woman living in the Central African Republic (CAR) capital, Bangui, has a simple message for the international community – she wants to be evacuated. “I was born in this district,” she told IRIN this week, “but […]
Issued under the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1992. Government Notice R128 in Government Gazette 37373 dated 26 February 2014. Commencement date: 1 March 2014. Download: South Africa Births and Deaths Registration Regulations 2014
Amsale Getnet Aberra is LL.M student at the University of Washington The Ethio-Eritrea conflict has been portrayed as a war without a justifiable cause serving the interest of those in power, a war between brothers that has led thousands to […]
The Constitutional Court said there is need to urgently align the immigration regulations in Zimbabwe with the new Constitution that allows dual citizenship to avoid breaches of citizens’ rights to free movement. Justice Chidyausiku passed the comments as the Constitutional […]
Ceci est un communiqué du REN-LAC relatif à la fraude qui sévit à certain niveau dans l’attribution des certificats de nationalité burkinabè. Corruption au sein de la justice. Quand la nationalité burkinabè se monnaie contre des espèces sonnantes et trébuchantes […]
DAKAR, 12 February 2014 (IRIN) – Twelve years after an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling demarcated the Cameroon-Nigeria border, the UN and the governments of Cameroon and Nigeria are making headway in physically laying down the border and helping […]
Dar es Salaam. Most of the Tanzanians living and working abroad were eagerly waiting to see the final Draft Constitution providing for dual citizenship following their long time request. Unfortunately the document has ignored it. But why did the Constitutional […]
By Sesupo Rantsimako MANDUNYANE: Almost a year since the Minister of Labour and Home Affairs Edwin Batshu promised to resolve the citizenship crisis of Bazezuru of Mandunyane, news reaching the North Cast is that the matter remains unresolved. For the […]
Dewa Iliassa, a young Muslim, lives on a street in Bozoum, a town in northwestern Central African Republic (CAR), with only a small pile of his belongings. He says he is too scared to move more than about 200m in […]
By Dele Ogbodo Twelve years after the judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), referred to as the Greentree Agreement between the governments of Nigeria and Cameroun, the federal government at the weekend advised that Bakassi indigenes resident in […]
By Wolfram Lacher A multitude of armed groups and smuggling networks with transnational reach are driving southern Libya’s integration into the Sahel–Sahara region. Contrary to widespread external perceptions, the extremist presence remains a marginal phenomenon in the southwest (Fezzan), at […]