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Mauritania’s campaign of terror: State-sponsored repression of black Africans

Published: 1/Jan/1989
Source: Human Rights Watch

Long before “ethnic cleansing” entered popular parlance, its effects were painfully apparent in Mauritania. Since 1989, tens of thousands of black Mauritanians have been forcibly expelled, and hundreds more have been tortured or killed; an undeclared military occupation of the […]

Niger: Décret n° 84-132/PCMS/MJ du 23 août 1984, modifié 1988

Published: 18/Feb/1988

Décret n° 84-132/PCMS/MJ du 23 août 1984, portant application de l’ordonnance n° 84-33 du 23 août 1984 portant Code de la nationalité nigérienne (Journal Officiel n° 20 du 15 octobre 1984) modifié par le décret n° 88-58/PCMS/MJ du 18 février […]

Constitution of the People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, 1987

Published: 12/Sep/1987

Proclamation No.1 0f 1987, 12 September 1987. CHAPTER SIX Citizenship Article 31. 1. Any person with both or one parents of Ethiopian citizenship is an Ethiopian. 2. Particulars relating to citizenship shall be determined by law. 3. The conditions and […]

Botswana: National Registration Act No 26 of 1986

Published: 31/Dec/1986

Legislation providing for the national identity card (Omang). Download original version: Botswana National Registration Act 1986 Amended by Act 23, 1987; Act 9, 1993; Act 17, 1993; and Act 11, 2017. Download consolidated version with amendments to 1993: Botswana National […]

Zimbabwe: Births and Deaths Registration Act 1986, as amended to 2005

Published: 20/Jun/1986

Chapter 5:02 of the Laws of Zimbabwe; Act No.11/1986, as amended by Acts 7/1994, 6/2000, 22/2001, 6/2005. Provides that: 10: Subject to this Act, notification and registration of the birth, still-birth or death of any person which occurs in Zimbabwe […]