By Tichaona Sibanda Zimbabweans in the Diaspora will be disappointed to note that dual citizenship is not enshrined in the new constitution, whose draft was released this week. Despite statements from MDC-T officials in COPAC that dual citizenship was in […]
By Toluwani Eniola NewsRescue- When will Nigerians be accorded the full-fledged rights of citizens in their country, irrespective of whatever region of the country they are born and bred? This question has remained a mirage. One of the undoings of […]
CRC/C/DZA/CO/3-4 Birth registration 37.The Committee notes as positive that birth registration is almost universal in the State party. The Committee is however concerned that: (a)Registration officers and family judges often refuse to register children born out of wedlock although no […]
Most Bedouins from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula never think to register their marriages. A palm leaf from the father of the bride to the groom is enough to mark the union; families and tribal elders stand witness to the ceremony. But […]
These Guidelines are aimed at assisting States to ensure that stateless persons receive such status in their jurisdictions. They address the treatment of persons determined to be stateless by a State under the 1954 Convention, the position of individuals awaiting […]
The Registrar General has announced that marriages that were solemnised by at least 716 marriage officers that have gone underground face cancellation while mass weddings have been banned. External file: Zimbabwe bans mass weddings
The daughter of Col. Patrick Karegeya, the exiled former Rwandan spymaster, is stranded in Kampala after Kigali stripped her of citizenship and Uganda hurriedly withdrew an alternative passport a week after issuing it. Portia Mbabazi Karegeya, 23, told this newspaper […]
LSE’s Katy Long argues that the West African model which allows refugees to become migrants is one way to end protracted refugees situations. There is a poster (see below) in my office at LSE. A shot of subway graffiti reading […]
By Charles Gichane NAIROBI, Kenya, July 11 – A Kenyan immigration lawyer based in the United States has cautioned Kenyans who are re-applying for their Kenyan citizenship and hence becoming dual citizens, to tread carefully and ensure they do not […]
By Sarnata Reynolds, Refugees International One year after South Sudan gained independence, many southerners are still waiting for the slips of paper that will prove they are citizens of the world’s newest nation and grant them access to employment, a […]
By Tichaona Sibanda For the first time in Zimbabwe’s history the new constitution will allow dual citizenship, a situation that could be capitalized on by people living in the Diaspora, to push for their right to vote in the next […]
Amends the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act, 2011 (No. 12 of 2011) as follows: S.4(2) Delete the word “undesirable” appearing in paragraph (f) and substitute therefor the word “inadmissible”. S.13(4) Delete the introductory portion and substitute therefor the following: “A […]