Zimbabwean Exemption Permits will now expire in December By Tariro Washinyira Zimbabwean Exemption Permits have been extended for a further six months, until 31 December 2023, the Department of Home Affairs announced on Wednesday. The extension affects about 180,000 permit […]
« Nous sommes venus discuter d’une collaboration avec la CNDH afin de soutenir l’action du gouvernement dans la lutte contre l’apatridie. La CNDH a un rôle fondamental en cela, elle peut aider le HCR à continuer à promouvoir la lutte contre l’apatridie. […]
The General Secretary of Tabital Pulaaku International – Ghana chapter, Yakubu Musah Barry, has made an alarming claims regarding the denial of citizenship and discriminatory practices faced by the Fulani community in Ghana. In a recent press conference held in […]
By Lameck Masina BLANTYRE, MALAWI — Malawi’s government has started revoking citizenship of refugees and asylum-seekers who they say obtained their status fraudulently. Officials say the campaign is aimed at flushing out criminals from other countries, including Rwandan genocide suspects. But […]
By Lovemore Khomo The Malawi Government have launched investigations into how genocide fugitive Fulgence Kayishema obtained a Malawi passport in the years between 2017 and 2018 that he used for travel under the name Positani Chikuse. Malawi’s Homeland Minister Kenneth […]
By Zelda Venter Pretoria – It was a joyous occasion this week for a six-year-old child who was orphaned at the age of five months when her mother died, when the court, with the help of Lawyers for Human Rights, […]
The Minister of Homeland Security, Honourable Kenneth Zikhale Ng’oma, has with immediate effect revoked citizenship of 396 Burundian and Rwandan Nationals who dubiously acquired their naturalization papers. According to the ministry’s Public Relations Officer, Patrick Botha, revocation is pursuant to […]
A civil society organisation (CSO), Save Nigeria Movement (SNM) has asserted that the eligibility conditions and process for granting permanent residency status or Nigerian citizenship to a foreigner can only be reviewed through a constitution amendment. The group therefore urged […]
Introduction Statelessness is defined as the condition of not being considered a national by any state under the operation of its laws. This condition, however, may be the result of a human rights violation that always leaves stateless persons without […]
Zahra Albarazi and Thomas McGee A new regional network on statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa region is raising awareness and providing a platform for mobilisation. Statelessness has been an issue across the Middle East and North Africa […]
Zimbabwe’s president Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to sign into law the Patriotic Bill, which critics and the opposition say is the most draconian law ever passed in the country’s post-colonial history. The bill is an amendment to the Criminal Law […]
The Bill will amend the Criminal Law Code in four respects: It will create the crime of “wilfully damaging the sovereignty and national interest of Zimbabwe” [this is the “patriot” part of the Bill] It will provide mandatory minimum prison […]