Executive Summary This report represents the findings of a preliminary study that sought to establish the impact of the National Identity Card system (commonly known as “Ndaga Muntu”) to people’s Economic, Social and Cultural rights, in relation to the state […]
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni launched the country’s digital ID program in 2014 and it was further expanded after the passing of the Registration of Persons Act, 2015. The system is designed to collect biometric data such as fingerprints and facial […]
Download: Rwanda Law No 001-2020 amending Law no 32-2016 governing persons and family
INTRODUCTION 1.1 Citizenship is the concept of belonging to a nation or a sovereign state. It is a legal status enshrined in the constitution and/or in statute which accord members rights and privileges along with responsibilities. This include the right […]
Madagascar’s restrictive citizenship policy is not an outlier but a trendsetter as countries around the world look to preserve their ethnic mix or wholly exclude communities. Karan Mahajan The western coast of the island nation of Madagascar is a nullity […]
Bronwen Manby « Nationality and Statelessness Among Persons of Western Saharan Origin », Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, Vol.34, No. 1, February 2020, pp.9-29 Download at LSE e-prints: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/103816/
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The 2019 Shona Socio-Economic Assessment Survey report studies data on Shona households living in and around Kenya’s Nairobi and Kiambu counties. The Shona community is a stateless population originating from Zimbabwe and Zambia. This groundbreaking report is the first of […]
By ROSE MIREMBE Tanzania will from Saturday enforce the use of the new East African Community electronic passport (e-passport) as its official international travel document. Phasing out of the old passports will end on March 1 to allow Tanzanians in […]
A Kenyan court has ordered the government to stop implementation of its the National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS) until a constitutionally sound framework is in place, following a legal challenge by Kenyan civil society groups supported by the Justice […]
The government of Kenya introduced the National Integrated Identity Management System, NIIMS, which came to be popularly known as Huduma Namba in January 2019. NIIMS was to put in place a new centralized and digital population register as a “single […]
Atuguba, Raymond A., Francis Xavier Dery Tuokuu, and Vitus Gbang. ‘Statelessness in West Africa: An Assessment of Stateless Populations and Legal, Policy, and Administrative Frameworks in Ghana’. Journal on Migration and Human Security 8, no. 1 (2020): 14–31. Drawing on […]