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Nigerian government inaugurates high-level steering committee to eradicate statelessness

Published: 23/Jan/2023
Source: Voice of Nigeria / News Agency of Nigeria

The Federal Government of Nigeria has inaugurated a High-Level Steering Committee (HLSC) for the eradication of statelessness in Nigeria and to kickstart the implementation of its five-key priority activities. The Deputy Director of Press and Public Relations, Ministry of Interior, […]

Creating Belonging or Ruling by Exclusion? Politics, Citizenship and African Governance

Published: 23/Jan/2023
Source: Democracy in Africa

By Jesper Bjarnesen, Cristiano Lanzano, Henning Melber, and Patience Mususa Citizenship is and has always been a complicated and multi-faceted concept. Across African contexts, as a recent IDAP webinar reiterated, this complexity is both conceptual and reflective of the many and changing […]

La connaissance de l’Amazigh requise pour l’octroi la citoyenneté marocaine

Published: 22/Jan/2023
Source: Hespress

La nouvelle exigence intervient dans le sillage d’une proposition de loi présentée par le groupe parlementaire de l’Istiqlal à la Chambre des représentants, et porte sur l’intégration aux dispositions de l’article 11 du Dahir 1.58.250 relative à l’obtention de la […]

Bénin: Patrice Talon promulgue le code de la nationalité

Published: 19/Jan/2023
Source: Benin Web TV

Par Edouard Djogbénou Adopté à l’Assemblée nationale le 29 Novembre 2022, la loi N°2022-32 du 20 décembre 2022 portant code de la nationalité en République du Bénin a été promulguée par le président de la République SEM Patrice Talon. La […]

Le code de la nationalité béninoise promulgué

Published: 19/Jan/2023
Source: 24 heures au Benin

La loi N°2022-32 du 20 décembre 2022 adoptée à l’Assemblée nationale, 8è législature le 29 novembre 2022, a été promulguée par le président de la République Patrice Talon. Au Bénin, les conditions d’attribution ; d’acquisition ; de déclaration ; de […]

South Africa: Undocumented children struggle to find schools

Published: 13/Jan/2023
Source: Ground Up (Cape Town)

By Kimberly Mutandiro It is 10am and nine-year-old Michael is begging at a set of traffic lights in Johannesburg. Most children his age are back at school after the holidays. But Michael is undocumented. Michael has not been in school […]

Is the automatic loss of South African citizenship for those acquiring other citizenships constitutional? Democratic Alliance v Minister of Home Affairs

Published: 8/Jan/2023
Source: South African Journal on Human Rights

David Bilchitz & Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler (2023) Is the automatic loss of South African citizenship for those acquiring other citizenships constitutional? Democratic Alliance v Minister of Home Affairs, South African Journal on Human Rights, DOI: 10.1080/02587203.2022.2158925 1. Introduction For an […]