By: Gashegu Muramira Rwanda’s High Commissioner to Uganda Frank Mugambage yesterday said that government is yet to get an official communication regarding Rwandan citizens holding Uganda National Identity Cards. Mugambage’s remarks come following statements made over the weekend by Uganda’s […]
This report was prepared in the context of the Identification for Development (ID4D) initiative, the World Bank Group’s cross-departmental effort to support progress towards identification systems using 21st century solutions. Download from World Bank website.
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) represents a couple who are asking the Department of Home Affairs to register their two children and provide them with the children’s birth certificates. The couple approached the LRC after they were unable to register […]
Reports on the first anniversary of the Abidjan Declaration to end statelessness in West Africa, as well as a meeting of the Migration Dialogue for Southern Africa and a January 2016 Memorandum of Understanding between the Southern Africa Trade Union […]
Rwanda is planning to put some strict restrictions on Congolese nationals and also carry out an inspection to find out and get whoever that owns the Rwanda National ID’s in an illegal manner since this act puts at risk the […]
By Daniel S. Ntwari In Summary A report by the Rwandan parliament on refugees status 2014/15 shows that some Congolese refugees illegally acquired Rwandan IDs and some of them still hold on to their Congolese national IDs which they use […]
A total of 38 foreigners from various countries have naturalised as Ghanaians effective Wednesday. The 38, who are from Britain, Lebanon, the United States, Spain and other African countries, were each issued with a certificate of naturalisation by the Accra […]
Les Guinéens n’en peuvent plus de la pénurie des cartes d’identité nationales. Elles sont introuvables dans tout le pays. L’obtention de ce document est tout simplement impossible aujourd’hui en Guinée. A cela, il faut ajouter la crise chronique liée à […]
Complaint relating to Tanzania’s expulsion of alleged Rwandan and Burundian immigrants in August-September 2013. — This is a Reference filed by the East African Law Society (hereinafter referred to as the “Applicant”), which is the apex regional Bar Association of […]
CRC/C/KEN/CO/3-5 Enregistrement des naissances et nationalité 29. Le Comité salue l’adoption de la loi de 2011 sur la nationalité et l’immigration, qui prévoit le droit à la nationalité kényane pour tous les enfants nés dans l’État partie et reconnaît le […]
EXPOSE DES MOTIFS L’institution d’une carte nationale d’identité biométrique constitue la décision majeure adoptée par la quarante sixième (46ème) session ordinaire de la conférence des Chefs d’Etat et de Gouvernement de la Communauté économique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest […]
CRC/C/ZMB/CO/2-4 Concluding observations on the combined second to fourth periodic reports of Zambia Birth registration 31. The Committee notes the measures that the State party put in place to promote free birth registration in the country. However, it remains concerned […]