Abyei has proved to be the hardest part of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) to implement, harder, even, than the determination of the rest of the North-South boundary, or the division of oil revenues. In this personal commentary Douglas Johnson […]
A senior official in the ministry of interior in Khartoum announced on Wednesday that the responsible departments have drafted a set of amendments to the passports and immigration law in order to address the increasing foreign presence in the country. […]
A government circular requiring persons of Asian or Arabic descent professing Islam to be vetted before being issued with national identity cards has been challenged in court. Muslims for Human Rights (Muhuri) said the confidential circular issued to all district […]
Article Premier: La présente loi organise et détermine les conditions et les procédures obligatoires de déclaration, d’enregistrement des évènements d’Etat Civil ainsi que celles relatives à la délivrance, des actes sécurisés qui en découlent. Elle s’applique à tous les citoyens […]
JOHANNESBURG, 7 January 2011 (IRIN) – Undocumented Zimbabwean migrants were given until 31 December 2010 to regularize their stay in South Africa, but this has been extended to 31 March, and problems with issuing passports by the Zimbabwean authorities could […]
By Peter de Clercq (UNHCR Khartoum) Download file (scan of newspaper article): Citizenship Questions (PDF, 1005 kb)
Section 7 : A child has the right, from birth, to a decent name and to acquire a nationality. Section 8: A child has a right to be registered within three months of birth whether born alive or still-born. Section […]
This report reviews the extent to which a number of West and Central African countries have harmonised their laws along the lines of what is required under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the […]
Article by Munzoul A. M. Assal, associate professor of social anthropology and director, Graduate Affairs Administration, University of Khartoum. The fieldwork for this paper was supported by Peacebuilding in Sudan: Micro-Macro Issues, a Chr. Michelsen Institute project funded by the […]
By Roni Amit Between September 20 and December 31, 2010, the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) carried out the Zimbabwe Documentation Process (ZDP). Intended as a model for similar documentation projects that the DHA plans to extend to other categories […]
Par Khadija Elmadmad La migration féminine a connu un développement important au Maroc, surtout depuis la fin des années 1970 et plus particulièrement depuis les années 1990. Mais, malgré ce développement, l’intérêt académique porté à ce type de migration, et […]
UPDATE OF IDENTITY DOCUMENTS The National Center for Official Documents (CNEDO) has been instructed to update all National Identity Documents per decision of the Prime-Minister of 25 October 2010. The CNEDO was created by Decree No. 24/2010, of 11 March […]