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 […]
(Togo First) – Au Togo, une nouvelle étape vient d’être franchie dans la mise en place du système d’identification biométrique. L’Agence togolaise d’identification, (ANID-TOGO), a annoncé dans un communiqué publié ce jeudi 1er juin 2023, avoir confié la construction du […]
Thuso Khumalo Should they fail with a court challenge to secure their continuous stay in South Africa, thousands of Zimbabwean nationals could be forced to leave the country. Many don’t want to return home and start all over again. Almost […]
By Jacob Mosenda Dar es Salaam. Tanzania is set to complete the process of instituting special status for its citizens living in the Diaspora by the end of 2023. Winding up debate on her docket’s Sh247.9 billion budget for 2023/24, […]
Aya Salah President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has ratified amendments to the Egyptian Nationality Law of 1975, allowing foreign minors born in Egypt to either a man or a woman born in the country or with an Egyptian origin to acquire citizenship […]