By Bronwen Manby Millions of people living in Africa find themselves nonpersons in the only states they have ever known. Because they are not recognized as citizens, they cannot get their children registered at birth; they cannot access state health […]
The conflict in Western Sahara is one of the longest running and most forgotten in the world. Known as Africa’s last colony, Western Sahara was sold to Morocco and Mauritania by the Spanish when they withdrew in 1976. The Mauritanians […]
By Adow Jubat and Boniface Ongeri He had just hit 18 years in 2006 when as required by law, he decided to get a national identity card. Having been born by Kenyan parents in Garissa District, Khalif Hassan was certain […]
The Zimbabwe land-reform programme was the “best thing that could have happened to an African country”, according to President Robert Mugabe. The land grabs that drove thousands of white farmers and their black workers off their land in Zimbabwe over […]
The Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), led by its chairman and prime minister, Meles Zenawi, has radically reformed Ethiopia’s political system. The regime transformed the hitherto centralised state into the Federal Democratic Republic and also redefined citizenship, politics and […]
Legislators in Mali will have to try harder to win support for the next draft of their new family code after the president sent it back to parliament on 27 August for re-drafting. The current draft code recognizes only secular […]
On 8 May 2009, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representative in Burundi announced at a press conference in Bujumbura, “[w]e are in the final year of repatriation.” This statement reinforced growing pressure on refugees living in Tanzania […]
Cidadãos provenientes de várias partes do continente africano, estão a fixar-se ilegalmente na Província de Cabinda, e posteriormente a adquirirem de forma obscura a nacionalidade angolana, segundo depoimentos dos próprios infractores. Para tal, recorrem as conservatórias dos Municípios do Interior, […]
HARARE Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirais office has said Zimbabwes unity government will review a controversial law used to strip hundreds of people of their citizenship and right to vote because they were once citizens of other countries or because their […]
By Joseph Konadu INTRODUCTION The Foreign Enlistment Act, 1961 interprets a passport as including “every form of travel document issued on behalf of the Republic”. According to the Immigration Act, 2000 (ACT 573) a “passport means a valid travel document […]
By Muthoni Wanyeki Last Sunday, the Nation Media Group published an editorial responding to donor and civil society’s concerns about the inclusion of questions as to ethnicity in the upcoming Kenyan national census. Civil society has, in the past, urged […]
An Act to amend the Uganda Citizenship and Immigration Control Act, to provide for dual citizenship; to provide for the board to have a vote of its own; to amend the provisions of the Act relating to the loss of […]