By Joseph Ndunda The Nubian Rights Forum (NRF) has accused the government of discriminating against the community and deliberate failure to issue national identity cards to its youth. NRF executive director Shafi Ali Hussein further claims some officers at the […]
«L’acte de naissance est le premier document dans la vie d’un individu et le plus important car il le suit durant toute sa vie. C’est ce document qui lui confère la personnalité juridique à un individu». Dr Hervé Moby, le Maire […]
Clement Bernardo Mubanga, doctoral thesis (2020). Abstract This study analyses as to what connection should be entitling a person to citizenship given the context of Tanzania. It points out discrepancies existing both in law and practice in determining Tanzanian citizenship […]
By Nanjala Nyabola The move toward digitizing identity and biometrics will only make existing systemic bias harder to crack. The future of travel is up in the air. As countries and companies attempt to define what safety looks like in […]
By Amadu Wurie Khan Introduction Sierra Leone’s history,like that of other colonised African countries,has shaped the country’s citizenship laws in particular ways.The transatlantic slave trade, inward migration by Africans and non–Africans, and the fight for self–rule and decolonisation predicated on […]
This booklet provides Guidelines and Procedures for the Acquisition of Zambian National Identity Documents by the Zambian Diaspora. The main purpose of the Guidelines and Procedures is to: i. Ensure smooth facilitation and easy acquisition of National Identity Documents; ii. […]
State House, Freetown, Thursday 29 April 2021 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has conferred Sierra Leonean citizenship on 59 African Americans who traced their origin to Sierra Leone through DNA, telling them that home was indeed home. […]
By Lucia Hanmer, Victoria Esquivel-Korsiak, & Rohini P. Pande Globally, an estimated 1 billion people do not have an official ID—of these, the majority are women. The 2017 Global Findex survey found that 45% of women in Low Income Countries (LICs) do not have an ID […]
Edited by Séverine Awenengo Dalberto & Richard Banégas In the context of a global biometric turn, this book investigates processes of legal identification in Africa ‘from below,’ asking what this means for the relationship between citizens and the state. Almost […]
Addis-Abeba, Éthiopie, le 29 avril 2021 (CEA) – La Commission économique pour l’Afrique (CEA) et ses partenaires ont développé un nouveau cadre visant à transformer la façon dont les pays africains conçoivent leurs systèmes d’enregistrement des faits d’état civil et […]
En marge de sa rencontre avec les parlementaires samedi 24 avril, le Chef de l’État Félix Tshisekedi les a appelés à réfléchir, dans le cadre des réformes, sur la possibilité de détenir une double nationalité. Pour Félix Tshisekedi, il est […]
By Norman Cloete A Namibian father, whose newborn twin girls are stuck in South Africa, has accused his government of blatantly refusing to acknowledge a legal document issued by South Africa. Dr Phillip Lühl and his Mexican husband, Guillermo Delgado, […]