Multi-Country Office (MCO) for Cote d’Ivoire: Statelessness Report 2024
Published: 29/Aug/2025
Source: UNHCR
Statelessness remains a concern for the UNHCR Multi-Country Office (MCO) for Côte d’Ivoire, covering Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, and Togo, with hundreds of thousands of people (including over 900,000 in Côte d’Ivoire) estimated to be stateless or at risk. The causes include weaknesses in civil registration systems, the presence of undocumented nomadic or border populations, restrictive or discriminatory nationality laws, and historical migrations. All MCO countries have appointed a government focal point under the aegis of ECOWAS, and all, except Ghana where the process is ongoing, have acceded to the UN statelessness conventions.