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Nigeria: Oru camp winds up

Published: 19/Jun/2007
Source: This Day (Nigeria)

Oke Epia The Federal Government has set June 30 as deadline for the winding up of the Oru Refugee camp and a return of the land to Ijebu North local government area of Ogun State. This was disclosed by Acting […]

Mauritania: exiles sue former dictator over rights abuses

Published: 7/Jun/2007
Source: IPS

A group of Mauritanian exiles living in New York has come forward to accuse the former ruler of their country of “gross violations of human rights.” They are challenging their country’s justice system even as they charge the former ruler […]

Ethnic cleansing in Mauritania

Published: 5/Jun/2007
Source: IRIN

FARAI CHIDEYA, host: On Africa’s northwestern coast sits Mauritania. It straddles the continent’s black African south and Arab north. From 1989 to 1991, the former French colony experienced ethnic cleansing similar to what’s happening now in Darfur, Sudan. The country’s Arab […]

CMW Concluding Observations: Egypt, 2007

Published: 25/May/2007
Source: UN Committee on Migrant Workers

CMW/C/EGY/CO/1 34.The Committee regrets that children born in Egypt of migrant workers, whether in regular or irregular situation, are not given a birth certificate by the Egyptian civil registry, in violation of article 29 of the Convention which provides that […]

Judgement in the case concerning Ahmadou Sadio Diallo

Published: 24/May/2007
Source: International Court of Justice

Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (Republic of Guinea v. Democratic Republic of the Congo) Preliminary Objections Summary of the Judgment of 24 May 2007 Download file: Judgement in the Case Concerning Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (PDF)

Making Nations, Creating Strangers: States and Citizenship in Africa

Published: 11/May/2007
Source: Brill

Editors: Paul Nugent, Daniel Hammett, and Sara Dorman Who belongs to the nation? How is citizenship defined? And why have such identities become so politically explosive in recent years? This book explores the instrumental manipulation of citizenship and narrowing definitions […]