Kampala, Uganda | URN | Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General Olara Otunnu says he has forgiven the Ugandan government for what he describes as years of mistreatment that left him stateless after authorities allegedly refused to renew his Ugandan passport. Otunnu, […]
A civil society activist has called on the Government of South Sudan to provide free nationality identification cards to rural communities ahead of the country’s December 2026 general elections. Wodcan Saviour, the Executive Director of Support Peace Initiative Development Organization […]
3 August 2026 – Somalia’s Second Deputy Prime Minister Jibril Abdirashid Haji has formally renounced his Kenyan citizenship and surrendered his Kenyan passport, becoming the first senior government official to comply with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s directive requiring ministers holding […]
By Joseph Zulu MBABANE – There is a reported increase in statelessness in the country. This refers to individuals living without a nationality, leaving them unable to fully participate in society or access basic services. While the issue is often […]
On 29 July 2026, a full bench of the Western Cape High Court handed down a significant judgment that removes longstanding barriers to birth registration in South Africa. In Cirangashane and Others v Director General of the Department of Home […]
By Memoscar Lasuba The Government of South Sudan is preparing to overhaul its civil registration system by introducing a nationwide digital registry that will transfer the issuance of birth certificates from hospitals to the Directorate of Civil Registry, Nationality, Passports […]
Le gouvernement malien a adopté, le 17 juillet 2026, un projet d’ordonnance élargissant la possibilité de déchéance de nationalité aux Maliens d’origine, une mesure jusqu’ici principalement réservée aux personnes naturalisées. Présentée comme un renforcement de l’arsenal juridique contre les atteintes […]
MONROVIA – A 178-year-old constitutional clause restricting citizenship to persons of Negro descent has returned to center stage. Dr. Robtel Neajai Pailey, an LSE scholar, brought a decade of research on the clause to the House of Representatives Tuesday. Her […]
By Leroy Maxwell Sonpon III The nation’s decades-old constitutional debate over citizenship, identity, and land ownership has resurfaced with renewed intensity following a caution from renowned Liberian political economist and scholar Robtel Neajai Pailey, who has urged lawmakers to proceed […]
By Sinenhlanhla Masilela The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has dismissed an application by the Minister of Home Affairs and the Director-General of Home Affairs to overturn an earlier order declaring a foreign national, Mikhail Sakharov as a South […]
By Sinenhlanhla Masilela| The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has rejected an application from the Minister of Home Affairs and the Director-General of Home Affairs to overturn a previous ruling that granted Mikhail Sakharov, a foreign national, South African […]
By John Sharp Cassandra Lewis’s path to citizenship in the African country of Benin began decades ago. As the youngest of nine children, she grew up listening to her father recount stories that were not fantasy tales of slave ships […]