The Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration has extended its birth registration office to private hospitals to ensure all births in the country are documented. The ministry introduced timely birth registration in 2008 and since then the birth registration centres […]
The Children’s Court of Johannesburg is ordered to permit an adoption of a Zimbabwean child to proceed, permitting the child to acquire South African citizenship. Download judgment: Napier Jameson vs Childrens Court judgement 6Feb2018
By Maureen Odunga CONVENTIONAL passport holders still have enough time to acquire their new East African e-passport before the phasing out of the documents in January, 2020. The clarification has been made by the Immigration Department Spokesperson, Superintendent of Police […]
Bouaké – Le problème des enfants et personnes adultes n’ayant jamais été déclarées à l’état-civil et ne disposant d’aucun acte de naissance, donc en situation d’apatridie, touche des milliers de personnes, des nationaux comme non nationaux, de la sous-préfecture de […]
[Editorial] President George Weah’s State of the Nation Address last Monday calling for citizenship and land rights to be granted people of non-Negro descent has sparked dissenting views from many quarters, even among those who are so loyal to him. […]
If you are Syrian or have been to Sudan, the chances are you will have seen a Facebook ad saying: “Interested in Sudanese nationality? Call this number.” Fast-track services offering Sudanese citizenship are openly advertised on social media, many of them […]
A l’occasion, une personne ressource du bureau local de la CEDEAO, a exposé sur « Les Initiatives de la CEDEAO en matière de migration et lutte contre l’Apatridie » , suivi de la présentation de Djibril Baldé, (International Refugee Rights […]
Depuis le 15 janvier, une campagne nationale pour l’inscription des enfants non enregistrés aux registres de l’état civil est lancée par les autorités, placée sous le signe «L’inscription à l’état civil, un droit constitutionnel : je suis inscrit donc j’existe», […]
By Henry Karmo Monrovia – Liberian Senators are providing contrary opinions on calls by President George Weah to revisit laws on citizenship, property ownership, and law to make people of non-Negro decent citizens of Liberia.In an off-the-agenda discussion (informal) while […]
4 Recommendations made on statelessness — by Sierra Leone, Namibia, Mexico 1 recommendation on acceding to the 1954 and 1961 Statelessness Conventions; 2 recommendations on eliminating gender discrimination in respect to the conferral of nationality; and 1 recommendation on promoting […]
Concernant la restriction sur la double nationalité, Weah a estimé que la plupart des Libériens qui sont également citoyens d’un autre pays ont probablement acquis cette nationalité supplémentaire pour échapper aux terribles atrocités qui ont caractérisé le conflit civil du […]
Report by Lennart Dodoo and Henry Karmo Monrovia – President George Manneh Weah has called for the repealing of the part of the Constitution that restricts Liberian citizenship to people of color He also called for the consideration of dual […]