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Citizenship Rights of Refugees Married to Kenyans

Published: 7/Feb/2023
Source: Haki na Sheria (Garissa)

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: […]

RDC : Mémorandum sur la situation des Tutsi congolais

Published: 6/Feb/2023
Source: La Libre Afrique (Bruxelles)

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, […]

Kenya: 1,698 citizenship applications were unapproved since 2018 – Kindiki

Published: 6/Feb/2023
Source: The Star (Nairobi)

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 […]

Tunisia’s government must open the Mobile ID black box

Published: 6/Feb/2023
Source: Access Now

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 […]

Communiqué final du conseil des ministres du Gabon du 1er février 2023

Published: 2/Feb/2023
Source: Gabon Matin

[…] 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 […]

Ethiopia digital ID prompts fears of ethnic profiling

Published: 1/Feb/2023
Source: Reuters

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 […]