Response to queries about Sahrawi citizenship/nationality in Western Sahara, Morocco and Algeria Download: https://coi.easo.europa.eu/administration/easo/PLib/009_EASO_COI_Query_Response_Western_Sahara_Morocco_Sahrawi.pdf
Pascalinah Kabi SIXTEEN immigrants from around the world yesterday took the oath of allegiance to become Lesotho citizens at the Ministry of Home Affairs offices in Maseru. Addressing the new citizens, who consisted of three children and 13 adults from […]
Is dual citizenship allowed in Tanzania? I went to university outside Tanzania and have now gotten my foreign passport but am also carrying my Tanzanian passport. Can I continue to do so? What is my legal status now? If my […]
In May 2013, the Government of the Republic of Zambia in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) declared, pursuant to Article 1C(5) and (6) of the 1951 Convention relating to the status of Refugees, Article I(4)(e) […]
Engagée depuis la mort du chef de l’Etat gabonais en 2009, la bataille des 54 enfants d’Omar Bongo pour le partage de son héritage, estimé a minima à plusieurs centaines de millions d’euros, a connu une nouvelle escarmouche, jeudi 12 […]
Madagascar plans to amend a discriminatory nationality law that stops mothers passing citizenship to their children, making thousands stateless on the Indian Ocean island. Campaigners hailed the proposed reform which they said could ease the plight of many of the […]
By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian On October 8, 2008, a group of government officials from the Comoro Islands made their way from their villages to a small airport not far from the nation’s capital, where, on a runway overlooking the Indian […]
By Verah Okeyo In Summary The small document people carry in their wallets stands between them and legitimacy in the eyes of the law while legalising the touchy matter of ethnic balance, especially in the public service. Data from the […]
November 5, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese Ministry of Interior announced today that all hand-written passports will be nullified effective November 25th after which only machine-readable passports (MRPs) will be accepted. […] The Director General of Passport Division Abu-Bakr Suleiman […]
In 2004, IHRDA filed a communication on behalf of Mr Esmaila Connateh and 13 other Gambians deported from Angola in March, April and May of 2004, together with an estimated 126,247 other foreigners. They were expelled under a government programme […]
Over the last two days Madagascar has taken significant steps towards eradicating gender discrimination in its nationality law and eliminating statelessness. If a reformed law is implemented it would ensure, amongst other things, that women are no longer discriminated against […]
Lesotho’s Ministry of Home Affairs said Wednesday that 16 foreigners from different countries have naturalised as Basotho.Ministry spokesperson Hape Marumo said some of these foreigners have since applied for Lesotho citizenship but failed because they could not meet the set […]