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South Sudan Nationality: Commitment Now Avoids Conflict Later

Published: 29/May/2012
Source: Refugees International

As the newest nation in the world, the Republic of South Sudan (RoSS) is undertaking the monumental task of building a nation state. Creating a functioning government would bean epic challenge for any country, but it is even greater for […]

South Sudan orders North workers kicked out

Published: 29/May/2012
Source: The Nation (Kenya)

South Sudan has asked its public institutions, non-governmental organisations and businesses operating in the country to sack Sudanese nationals. The decision followed a May 26 circular issued by the Ministry of Labour, Public Service and Human Resource Development to put […]

Libyan minority rights at a crossroads

Published: 24/May/2012
Source: IRIN

SEBHA/OUBARI/MURZUQ, 24 May 2012 (IRIN) – Since Muammar Gaddafi’s fall seven months ago, Libya’s non-Arab minorities, including an estimated 250,000 Tuaregs, have begun more vehemently to insist on their rights. “Gaddafi’s policy was ‘keep your dog hungry so that he […]

Southerners stranded in Sudan waiting for a trip home

Published: 23/May/2012
Source: Bloomberg

By Salma El Wardany Nimuli struggled to rise from a rope bed to greet pastor James Mading Bui at an Episcopal church where she lives in a suburb of Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, waiting to travel back home to the newly […]

Ghana: Asare v. Attorney General (Supreme Court)

Published: 22/May/2012
Source: Supreme Court of Ghana

Asare v. Attorney General (J1/6/2011) [2012] GHASC 31 Holding that additional restrictions on public office for dual citizens provided in legislation are constitutional: DR. DATE-BAH, J. S. C:    ‘This case raises intriguing general questions as to the constitutionality of new […]

Dual citizenship in Zimbabwe

Published: 5/May/2012
Source: Politics, Law and Social Thought (Lloyd Msipa blog)

By Lloyd Msipa Various opinions are doing the rounds on the internet and other forms of media with regard to the issue of dual citizenship in Zimbabwe under the new draft Constitution should it become law. This is in light […]

IOM prepares airlift of South Sudanese stranded in Kosti

Published: 4/May/2012
Source: IOM

IOM yesterday (3/5) received confirmation from the Government of Sudan that it will facilitate an IOM airlift from Khartoum to Juba of 12–15,000 South Sudanese currently stranded in Kosti, 200 kms south of the capital. The South Sudanese, many of […]

Struggling to find solutions: Liberian refugees in Ghana

Published: 1/May/2012
Source: UNHCR

By Naohiko Omata This paper investigates the challenges of resolving the protracted Liberian refugee situation in Ghana. despite the restored stability in Liberia and the unfavourable living conditions in exile, as of 2011, there were still about 11,000 Liberian refugees […]