Kenya has started drafting amendments to immigration laws in changes that will make it easier for wealthy foreign investors to acquire citizenship. Kenya Investment Authority (KenInvest) says it is writing draft legal changes that will see big-ticket investors eligible to […]
The Everyone Counts! initiative was launched in the fall of 2020 with a firm commitment to a simple principle: the digital transformation of the state can only qualify as a success if everyone’s human rights are respected. Nowhere is this […]
Le projet prévoyait de déchoir toute personne commettant à l’étranger des actes portant « de graves préjudices aux intérêts de l’Etat ». Le Monde avec AFP Le texte avait provoqué la colère et la stupéfaction chez les Algériens vivant à […]
THANDILE KONCO and MURPHY NGANGA Cape Town – Jose Neves Pedro was born at the Johannesburg General Hospital on February 7, 1996. Issued only a hospital letter and handwritten birth certificate without an ID number, Pedro is now one of […]
By Henry Karmo MONROVIA – The National Elections Commission on Thursday announced that none of the eight propositions of the December 8, 2020 Referendum met the constitutional two-thirds requirement. According to the NEC chairman Madam Davidetta Browne Lansanah, Section 4A.4 […]
The purpose of this project is to review the use of IDs in three (3) West African countries in order to determine where the IDs have been used to include and or exclude individuals in getting access to social services. […]
Liberians have rejected plans to shorten presidential terms and to allow dual citizenship, the country’s electoral commission said Thursday, announcing referendum results delayed for months over allegations of fraud. The West African nation went to the polls in mid-December for […]
The Federal Government says it has so far enrolled 51million citizens for the National Identification Number (NIN) as at March 31, 2021. Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, made this known at the weekly Presidential Media briefing […]
By Andrew Songa Citation: A Songa ‘Addressing statelessness in Kenya through a confluence of litigation, transitional justice, and community activism: reflecting on the cases of the Nubian, Makonde and Shona communities’ (2021) 5 African Human Rights Yearbook 253-276 ABSTRACT: This […]
By Danielle Smith – Founding Director, Sandblast Arts and Dr. Violeta Ruano The Saharawi people have been stateless for over 40 years since Western Sahara was occupied by Morocco in 1975. Danielle Smith, Founding Director of Sandblast Arts, and Dr. […]
Dans un réceptif hôtelier de la place mercredi 31 mars à Conakry, l’UNICEF et les autorités guinéennes ont procédé à la clôture du projet intitulé ‘’augmenter l’enregistrement des naissances des enfants de moins de cinq ans dans les régions de […]
By Daniel Mekonnen and Sara Palacios Arapiles Summary: This Independent Expert Report (hereinafter “the report”) is concerned with challenges experienced by Eritrean refugees in Europe in the context of family reunification processes, in particular those relating to strict documentary requirements […]