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ACHPR Comm 292/04 : Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa / Angola

Published: 22/May/2008
Source: African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR)

African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Communication 292/04 IHRDA (on behalf of Esmaila Connateh & 13 others) / Republic of Angola [24th AAR] 1.The complaint is filed by the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) on […]

Mozambique: “Vamos lá falar!” – Editorial do Zambeze

Published: 8/May/2008
Source: Zambeze (Maputo)

Qual é afinal a jurisprudência sobre a nacionalidade moçambicana? A semana que decorreu entre a nossa última edição e esta, foi rica em episódios. Nada melhor para quem gosta mesmo de jornalismo. E nada melhor do que isso acontecer em […]

Mozambique: Spurious Claims About Prime Minister’s Nationality

Published: 8/May/2008
Source: AIM (Mozambique)

By Paul Fauvet Maputo — Wednesday and Thursday saw the Mozambican government submitted to questioning in the country’s parliament, the Assembly of the Republic – but some of the opposition deputies, rather than asking relevant questions about the government’s compliance […]

Mozambique: Nacionalidade da PM: CP da Frelimo dissipa dúvidas

Published: 3/May/2008
Source: Zambeze (Maputo) / macua.blogs.com

Um comunicado da Comissão Política do Partido Frelimo chegado ontem à nossa Redacção refere que a Primeira-Ministra, Luísa Diogo é moçambicana e nunca perdeu a nacionalidade contrariamente às informações veiculadas por uma certa Imprensa. A Comissão Política reunida ontem na […]

Lesotho: Director of Immigration and others v. Lekhoaba

Published: 11/Apr/2008
Source: Lesotho Court of Appeal

C of A (CIV) No. 22/07 Summary: (a) Dual citizenship – Failure to renounce South African citizenship – Section 41 of the Constitution of Lesotho -Sections 22 and 23 of the Citizenship Order 1971 -Whether the first respondent ceased to […]

CEDAW Concluding Observations: Morocco, 2008

Published: 8/Apr/2008
Source: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

CEDAW/C/MAR/CO/4 Extract: 40. While noting with satisfaction the improvement in the personal status of women in the State party, including the fact that that every child born to a Moroccan mother, whether in Morocco or abroad, is entitled to acquire […]

CEDAW Concluding Observations: Burundi, 2008

Published: 8/Apr/2008
Source: UN Committee on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women

CEDAW/C/BDI/CO/4 The Committee considered the combined second, third and fourth periodic report of Burundi (CEDAW/C/BDI/4) at its 813th and 814th meetings, on 16 January 2008 (see CEDAW/C/SR.813 and CEDAW/C/SR.814). The Committee’s list of issues and questions is contained in CEDAW/C/BDI/Q/4 […]

Tanzania-Burundi: New Beginnings for the ’1972 Refugees’

Published: 12/Mar/2008
Source: IRIN

Banguabo Mosozi, 68, was a young man when he fled neighbouring Burundi to Tanzania, escaping violence that is estimated to have killed at least 200,000 people. That was in 1972. Now, a father of 14 with four wives, Mosozi is […]

La législation mauritanienne interdit la double nationalité, déclare le directeur des affaires civiles et du sceau au ministère de la justice

Published: 9/Mar/2008
Source: Association d'aides aux veuves et aux orphelins de mauritanie (AVOMM)

La législation mauritanienne interdit la double nationalité, a déclaré le directeur des affaires civiles et du sceau au ministère de la justice, le magistrat Mohamed Abderrahmane Ould Mohamed Lemine. La nationalité mauritanienne se perd et est retirée de toute personne […]