Provisional Decree No. 18 of 18/8/1993 was adopted with amendments by resolution of the Transitional National Assembly No.59 of 3/5/1994 and by signature of the President of the Republic on 17/5/1994. Amended by Miscellaneous Amendments Act No.1 of 2006, and […]
Chisom Jenniffer Okoye Is this a country that does not tolerate foreign nationals and renders their local-born children stateless? What is the future of the young man or woman who moved to SA with their parents at a young age […]
As of 2018, roughly 50 countries globally have nationality laws that discriminate on the basis of gender. Twenty-five countries retain nationality laws that deny women the right to pass their nationality to their children on an equal basis with men. […]
(Dec. 27, 2018) On December 12, 2018, Malawi’s 193-member unicameral National Assembly reportedly passed the Malawi Citizenship Amendment Bill to amend the 1966 Citizenship Act (hereinafter “the Principal Act”). If enacted, the new law would permit Malawians who have acquired […]
Conformément à la loi N° 2018-26 du 3 Août 2018 et après adoption du décret définissant les modalités et le fonctionnement du cadre administratif de l’enregistrement à titre dérogatoire, ils sont 2.500.000 sans-papiers béninois, qui peuvent désormais se frotter les […]
Abidjan, le 20 décembre 2018, la Coalition de la Société civile Ivoirienne contre l’apatridie (CICA) a organisé une cérémonie de lancement de sa campagne d’information et de sensibilisation sur le droit à la nationalité et la prévention de l’apatridie en […]
A la suite de la communauté africaine, le Mali a célébré ce 20 décembre 2018, la Journée africaine de l’état civil (JAEC), au Palais de la Culture de Bamako. Organisée par le ministère de l’administration territoriale et de la décentralisation, […]
Amends articles 40 and 41 of the constitution to provide for gender equality in transmission of citizenship by marriage, and to permit dual citizenship (with restrictions on rights in Lesotho). Download: Lesotho Constitution 8th Amendment 2018
Freeman Razemba Senior Reporter Zimbabweans living abroad can now apply for birth certificates for their children born on foreign soil through the country’s embassies, Registrar-General Mr Clemence Masango, has said. Mr Masango told journalists yesterday that his office no longer […]
BY PATRICK EBONG. The National Identification and Registration Authority plans to register and issue National Identity cards to three million people at the beginning of the New Year countrywide. Sam Okello, the Lira District registrar says the exercise will be […]
By Ryan Lenora Brown ULYANKULU, TANZANIA Daudi Nzila had thought a long time about what made this country his home, and he had decided, finally, it was the bones. “When you buried your beloveds somewhere, then that place belongs to […]
by Nellie Peyton NOUAKCHOTT, DEC 17 – Mo had nothing but a set of jail clothes and the name of a distant cousin when he boarded the deportation flight from the United States to Mauritania, the African country he had […]