By Ayang Macdonald After more than a decade of waiting, Gabonese will now be able to apply for and obtain a national digital ID card. The identity credential, known officially as the National Electronic Identity Card (CNIE), was launched last […]
South Africa’s Home Affairs fails court order, leaving 700,000 IDs blocked amid fraud suspicions unresolved. By Masoka Dube The department of home affairs (DHA) has failed to implement a court ruling instructing it to release some of the identity documents […]
By Caroline Tassot & Luis Iñaki Alberro In 2017, a quarter of Benin’s population was without a birth certificate, and less than half had a national identity card (NIC), with the figure for women even lower at 37%. Among those […]
Amendments to the Immigration Act providing for a “special status” to be granted to members of the Tanzanian non-citizen diaspora (see parts V & VI). Download: Tanzania Written Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Bill 2024
Par Lakhdar Belaid La question des binationaux revient dans le débat politique. Originaire du Valenciennois, l’historien Nedjib Sidi Moussa rappelle que l’Algérie les exclut déjà de postes stratégiques. Et il est impossible, pour une personne née algérienne de renoncer à […]
By Anna Chibamu PARLIAMENT has resolved to investigate the presence of undocumented people in Zimbabwe after Amnesty International took the government to task over the statelessness of hundreds of thousands. The human rights defender said many children were forced out […]
Primrose Modisane, denied South African citizenship, fights decade-long battle for identity documentation and recognition. by Masoka Dube A Gauteng-based woman has been living a life of squalor because she does not have an identity document Primrose Modisane, 36, from Vosloorus […]
In June 2023 the Pretoria High Court ruled that the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit was unlawfully terminated By Tania Broughton The Constitutional Court has dismissed an application by the Minister of Home Affairs for leave to appeal a June 2023 Pretoria […]
By Ayang Macdonald A mega money contract for the production of biometric national ID cards in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) is facing the risk of being revoked following allegations of irregularities. The contract, worth $697 million, is […]
Proposal could extend legal identity to tens of thousands By Ayang Macdonald The Parliament of Cameroon is examining a bill that will allow the country to accede to two United Nations Conventions relating to the recognition of stateless persons. If […]
By Harriet Chikandiwa GOVERNMENT yesterday reacted angrily to a report by Amnesty International in Zimbabwe detailing how the country’s discriminatory and arbitrary nationality laws had left generations of migrant workers and their families marginalised. In April 2021, Amnesty International launched […]
Le gouvernement ivoirien a adopté ce mercredi 14 juin 2023 un projet de loi faisant frein à l’acquisition immédiate de la nationalité ivoirienne pour le conjoint étranger, suite à la formalité administrative du mariage avec l’autre conjoint de nationalité ivoirienne, […]