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Tanzanian official rules out granting citizenship to Burundian refugees

Published: 22/Jun/2023
Source: Xinhua

DAR ES SALAAM, June 21 (Xinhua) — Tanzanian authorities on Tuesday ruled out the possibility of granting citizenship to Burundian refugees staying in refugee camps in western Tanzania. Sudi Mwakibasi, the director of the Refugee Services Department in the Ministry […]

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 […]