Haki na Sheria Initiative has today filed a petition in Garissa High Court relating to refugees married to Kenyans for seven or more years who are denied the right to apply for or acquire citizenship through marriage. Read press release: […]
Nous, citoyens de la RDC et des pays amis issus de la mosaïque culturelle que regorge le continent africain, vous adressons ce mémorandum, en vertu de la Convention pour la prévention et la répression du crime de génocide de 1948, […]
by FELIX KIPKEMOI There was a total of 1,698 applications for citizenship that have been pending approval over the last five years, Interior CS Kindiki Kithure has disclosed. All the applications, Kindiki stated, were pending the determination of the Cabinet […]
Le gouvernement Kenyan passera à l’émission de certificats numériques de naissance et de décès dès le 1er mars prochain. C’est ce qu’a récemment annoncé le ministère de l’Intérieur de la République du Kenya. Selon Julius Bitok (photo), secrétaire principal des […]
Over six months ago, the Tunisian government launched the country’s first digital legal identity program, its “Mobile ID” or “e-houwiya” initiative. Based on mobile phone numbers, the Mobile ID program has been touted as part of a wider shift towards […]
Faute d’une présence de représentants de l’Etat dans certains endroits reculés, d’une vieille habitude ou tout simplement d’une méconnaissance de la loi, 4 enfants sur 10 ne sont pas inscrits à leur naissance à l’état civil dans ce pays où […]
Charlene Kreuser and Sabrina Ochoa (Legal Resources Centre, Cape Town) Every child has the right to a name and a nationality. This right is guaranteed not only under the Constitution, but in international law as well, and accrues to children […]
The Zimbabwean government says it has concrete plans in place to repatriate thousands of Zimbabweans, whose exemption permits will be terminated on June 30. Speaking to journalists in Johannesburg today, David Hamadziripi, Zimbabwe’s ambassador to South Africa, said they will […]
[…] Le projet de décret portant prorogation de la validité de la Carte Nationale d’Identité. Le présent décret pris en application des dispositions de l’article 51 de la Constitution porte prorogation de la validité de la Carte Nationale d’Identité. Par […]
Zecharias Zelalem The rollout of digital ID Fayda in Ethiopia could entrench discrimination against Tigrayans and other ethnic minorities, rights groups fear Ethiopia introduces digital ID to improve access to services Tigrayans fear the data may be used to discriminate […]
Introduction to AHMR Volume 8 Number 3 September – December 2022 The African Human Mobility Review (AHMR) is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed on-line journal created to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects (socio-economic, political, legislative and developmental) of human […]
WHEREAS the National Assembly considered public petition No. 41 of 2020 dated the 19th November, 2020, regarding the recognition of the Pemba people of Kenya as citizens of the Republic of Kenya; WHEREAS the petition posits that the Pemba Community […]