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How to get documented: A step-by-step guide to getting birth certificates, citizenship documents and immigration visas for children in South Africa.

Published: 20/Jun/2023
Source: Centre for Child Law / South African Human Rights Commission

The South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission) and the Centre for Child Law (the Centre) bring you this simple, but comprehensive guide on documenting children in South Africa. Both the Commission and the Centre receive hundreds of requests for […]

Ensuing Statelessness as (Post) Colonial Effect: Dynamics of Formal Identification Denial among the Fulani in Ghana

Published: 20/Jun/2023
Source: Critical Statelessness Studies blog (University of Melbourne Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness)

In this blog, Isaac Owusu Nsiah critically discusses the dynamics of the Ghanaian state’s recognition of the Fulani community as migrants and thus non-Ghanaians. He considers how such categorizations are institutionalised in citizen-identifying institutions, translating into widespread exclusions and discriminatory […]

Namibia: Over 50 000 without national documents in Kavango

Published: 20/Jun/2023
Source: The Namibian

By Petrus Muronga Stateless and undocumented people living in the Kavango East and Kavango West regions have called on the government to speed up registering them, accusing the Rundu regional office of delaying the process. The two Kavango regions have […]

Madagascar: la nationalité française du président malgache suscite la controverse

Published: 17/Jun/2023
Source: RFI

Selon le code de la nationalité malgache, l’acquisition volontaire d’une nationalité étrangère fait perdre la nationalité malgache. Avec notre correspondante à Antananarivo, Laetitia Bezain Le flou autour de la double nationalité d’Andry Rajoelina n’avait jamais été éclaircie. Alors que des […]

Monsieur le Président français de la République de Madagascar

Published: 17/Jun/2023
Source: Madagascar Tribune

Par Ikala Paingotra Depuis quelques jours, les réseaux sociaux s’enflamment autour du buzz concernant les preuves de la nationalité française du Président Rajoelina. Ce sujet avait déjà été évoqué il y a quelques mois quand la Gazette de la Grande […]

DR Congo Yearns For End To Long Wait For New ID Cards

Published: 16/Jun/2023
Source: AFP

By David MUKENDI Congolese voters are hoping the government keeps its promise to produce new ID cards for the first time in decades after preparations for December elections finally offered them official documents. National ID cards were last issued in […]

Road to Citizenship: The Case of the Makonde

Published: 16/Jun/2023
Source: Peace Tree Network (Nairobi)

Extract from introduction: [A]fter almost three years since the Makonde become Kenyan citizens, Peace Tree network (PTN) carried out a survey to examine the socioeconomic impact of citizenship on the community with a view of first, establishing gaps where PTN […]