Le Président de la Commission Electorale Indépendante, M. Youssouf Bakayoko, accompagné de son vice-président Gervais Coulibaly et son conseiller spécial Antoine Adou, a pris part ce vendredi 24 juillet 2014 à une réunion au siège du PNUD à Abidjan-Plateau avec […]
Le ministre de la Gouvernance locale, de l’Aménagement du territoire et du Développement, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr, a révélé mercredi que la région de Fatick dispose d’un logiciel de gestion automatisée de l’enregistrement des faits d’état-civil (naissances, mariages et décès), dénommé […]
Des deux cents (200) pays et territoires du monde, la Côte d’Ivoire est l’un des rares à fournir des chiffres concernant les apatrides. Évalués à plus de sept cent cinquante mille, ces populations résidant sur le sol ivoirien, depuis des […]
There are more than half a million refugees in Kenya, trapped in protracted situations with few opportunities for self-reliance. Some Somali refugees have stayed at the Dadaab camp for 25 years. Their prolonged stay is not in any way illegal […]
Amid the furore over Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s attendance, along with celebrities like Angelina Jolie, some of the discussions at last month’s African Union (AU) summit in Johannesburg went largely unnoticed. One of these is a renewed call for African […]
It must have appeared daunting initially and many in Ondo State, pooh-poohed the idea, dismissing it as unworkable, impracticable. But today, that dream has become a reality and the goal of drastically reducing maternal and child mortality to a level […]
Representatives of documentation registries from more than 40 African countries are meeting in the Zimbabwean capital Harare to discuss ways of improving the registration processes in their territories.Officially opening the meeting, Zimbabwe’s newly appointed Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo urged […]
Manal and Ahmed don’t look alike. Manal holds her infant son, who plays with the folds of her hijab. Ahmed looms from a photograph behind her, a baseball cap on his head. Manal is a shy young mum, Ahmed an […]
South Africa has seen a net outflow of 8 000 dollar millionaires over the last fifteen years. According to a new study from LIO Global and New World Wealth, this is among the largest migrations of high net worth individuals […]
The cross-border initiative programme of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) may begin to bear fruit next year as the community has planned to issue biometric cards in January 2016. The cards will grant easier access to citizens […]
By S. Kwaku Asare Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings has recently questioned the nationality of the newly-appointed chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC). Her allegation comes on the backdrop of recent intense speculations that the chairperson is a Nigerian by birth. […]
Few days ago, news broke out from a popular online news platform suggesting that Nigeria’s Senate President, Sen. Dr. Bukola Saraki is not a citizen of Nigeria by virtue of his holding dual citizenship of the Federal republic of Nigeria […]