The National Human Right Commission, NHRC, leads the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, OSIWA, and PREMIUM TIMES to debate the status of residency rights in Nigeria The National Human Right Commission (NHRC), along with the Open Society Initiative for […]
Article 9 9. Introduction 9.1 Matters related to the acquisition, change, loss and deprivation of citizenship are regulated by the 2005 National Constitution and the Citizenship Act of 1992. These pieces of legislation are essentially consistent with one another in […]
Decision of High Court at Nairobi (Nairobi Law Courts) on Petition 50 of 2011 relating to requirements to confirm the veracity of registration documents of all Kenyans of Somali origin. Download file: here
It has been three years and the senior manager of communications in the KwaZulu-Natal legislature, Leon Mbangwa, is still fighting a court battle for South African citizenship. Mbangwa successfully brought an application in the Pietermaritzburg High Court in August 2009 […]
Now back in Zimbabwe, Barbara Nicholas says her children have been rendered stateless because of the failure by the UK Home Office to renew their passports. Nicholas says she and her family moved to the UK in 2003, where they […]
Nearly 25,000 Mauritanian refugees who had sheltered in Senegal for two decades after fleeing violence in 1989, have returned home since 2008, but despite extensive efforts to resettle them in their original villages many lack ID papers and/or access to […]
By Goitsemodimo Williams Members of the Bazezuru community in Mandunyane have asked for a meeting with labour and home affairs minister, Mr Edwin Batshu to discuss the contentious issues of citizenship and national registration. The residents made the request through […]
C’est en 2009 que le président de la République, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, avait pris la décision d’introduire l’usage des technologies de la biométrie dans la conception des documents d’identité (carte nationale d’identité, passeport, permis de conduire…). Ainsi, un projet […]
Zimbabweans in the diaspora are breaking the law by acquiring dual birth certificates for their children and the government says it will come down hard on them. “We do not allow dual citizenship in this country, when someone gives birth […]
By Phillip De Wet A confidential Lesotho government report has painted a lurid picture of a secret network — headed by a wanted Ethiopian — which is allegedly smuggling illegal Chinese, Ethiopians, Bangladeshis and Pakistanis through Lesotho into South Africa. […]
By: Clement B. Mubanga From: Open University Law Journal 2013, Vol. 4, No. 1:7-19 Abstract Historically, Tanzania is composed of a medley of people. The latter are made of different origins due to a number of factors. With such a […]
Voter registration is widely recognized as one important means of ensuring that only eligible voters are able to participate in the electoral process. Indeed, most democratic countries have some sort of voter registration process that precedes the casting of a […]