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Significant number of Liberians without birth certificates

Published: 9/Nov/2022
Source: New Dawn (Monrovia)

By Lewis S. Teh The Government of Liberia through the Liberia Refugee Repatriation and Resettlement Commission (LRRRC) has alarmed that a significant number of Liberians are without birth certificates. At an official program in observance of the World Day Against […]

Madagascar : Vers une naturalisation des apatrides

Published: 9/Nov/2022
Source: la1ere.francetvinfo.fr

« Il n’est surtout pas question de rendre plus facile l’accès à la nationalité malgache » précise un député pour rassurer les tenants purs et durs du droit du sang. Le texte permettra cependant d’octroyer la nationalité à plusieurs milliers de personnes […]

Western Sahara: Long-Term Prisoners Await Justice

Published: 8/Nov/2022
Source: Human Rights Watch & Amnesty International

Morocco Violated Torture Convention in Case, UN Body Ruled (Tunis) – Nineteen Sahrawi activists languish in prison years after Moroccan courts convicted them in unfair proceedings, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today. The convictions of the so-called Gdeim […]

Madagascar: Le code de la nationalité bientôt adopté ?

Published: 6/Nov/2022
Source: Madagascar Tribune

Par Mandimbisoa R. Le Code de la nationalité Malagasy sera de nouveau discuté à l’Assemblée Nationale prochaine. Un atelier de réappropriation de la proposition de loi sur la nationalité s’est déroulé à l’Hôtel Le Carat Ambatofotsy la semaine dernière. Selon […]

Zimbabwean government says to grant citizenship to deserving investors

Published: 4/Nov/2022
Source: Xinhua

HARARE, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) — Friendly investors will be granted Zimbabwean citizenship as part of the government’s efforts to lure investment, a cabinet minister has said. “President Emmerson Mnangagwa is once again going to make history by making Zimbabwe one […]

Nigeria: Federal Govt, Stakeholders Review Procedure For Stateless Persons’ Status

Published: 2/Nov/2022
Source: Leadership (Abuja)

by Tunde Oguntola National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCRFMI) and other stakeholders have commenced the review of the draft Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Statelessness Status Determination (SSD). The federal commissioner of NCFRMI, Hajiya Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, […]

South Sudan: Helping to secure a future, one National ID card at a time

Published: 2/Nov/2022
Source: UNHCR

Refugees returning to remote areas of South Sudan often struggle to get vital nationality documents. So UNHCR is taking the registration process to them. Farmer Juma Alzen Sebil ran for his life when gunmen attacked his hometown in 2016, shooting […]