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Togo: Loi n° 2012-014 du 6 juillet 2012 portant Code des personnes et de la famille

Published: 6/Jul/2012

Journal officiel, 2012-07-06, n° 33 – Numéro spécial, pp. 6-72 Adoptée par l’Assemblée 29 juin 2012 Télécharger: https://legitogo.gouv.tg/be/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Pages-from-jo_2012-033Special-2.pdf Article 149 : Le divorce n’a aucun effet sur les droits acquis de l’homme ou de la femme en matière de nationalité […]

500,000 at risk in Sudan nationality deadlock

Published: 3/Jul/2012
Source: Al Arabiya

U.N. rights chief Navi Pillay warned Tuesday that a half million South Sudanese in Sudan risk being left in a stateless limbo because of a nationality battle between the two countries. Link to Al Arabiya article: http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/07/04/224367.html

23,000 Angolans back home as refugee status ends

Published: 30/Jun/2012
Source: AFP

The United Nations refugee agency said a total of 23,000 Angolans have been repatriated since last year from neighbouring countries where their refugee status officially ended on Saturday. “Since February 2011, 23,000 Angolans have returned to their country,” the UNHCR’s […]

Discrepancies between the International Legal Obligations and the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria relating to the Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness

Published: 29/Jun/2012
Source: Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and UNHCR

Submission to the Upper House of the National Assembly that highlights several provisions of the 1999 Constitution that increase the risk of statelessness, and makes recommendations for amendments, including safeguards against statelessness for children of unknown parents and the removal […]

Swaziland re-appoints controversial chief judge

Published: 25/Jun/2012
Source: Sapa-AFP

(MBABANE 25 June 2012)  The Swaziland government has renewed the contract of the country’s chief justice, who is a Lesotho national, saying there were no local judges suitable for the job, an official said on Monday. Michael Ramodibedi’s appointment comes […]

Uganda: Government plans naturalization of refugees

Published: 21/Jun/2012
Source: IRIN

The Ugandan government says it is in discussions to legalize and grant naturalization to thousands of refugees who fled into the country in the 1960s and 1990s, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. At an event in […]

Scores killed as Mai-Mai target Kinyarwanda speakers

Published: 12/Jun/2012
Source: IRIN

More than 100 people have been killed and thousands displaced in ethnically motivated massacres in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since mid-May, according to government officials. Bigembe Turikonkinko, the sector chief of Katoyi in North Kivu’s Masisi territory, has […]

Botswana: Marriages of convenience on the rise – Batshu

Published: 4/Jun/2012
Source: Mmegi (Gaborone)

Marriages of convenience have become a common phenomenon in Botswana and if the nation is not careful, there could be serious consequences, Minister of Labour and Home Affairs Edwin Batshu has cautioned. By Bame Piet Speaking to the Monitor on […]

The Supreme Court’s Pronouncements on Dual Citizenship in Ghana

Published: 4/Jun/2012
Source: Ghanaweb.com

S. Kwaku Asare The Supreme Court recently made several important pronouncements on dual citizenship that has statutory, regulatory, and travel implications. The pronouncements render inaccurate and obsolete information posted on the website of many of our embassies. I discuss the […]

Egypt: Citizenship Requirements at the Test of Presidential Elections

Published: 4/Jun/2012
Source: EUDO Citizenship Observatory

by Gianluca Parolin (EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert, American University of Cairo) Citizenship seems to have become the last frontier of political litigation in Egypt. It had been so even before the constitutional amendments approved in a national referendum in March 2011, […]