Le Représentant du HCR en Côte d’Ivoire, Mohamed Askia Touré, passe en revue la situation des apatrides en Côte d’Ivoire avant la prochaine Conférence sur l’apatridie qui se tiendra à Abidjan le 25 février. ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE, 17 février (HCR) […]
As of April, eligible citizens will be able to apply for their Smart ID Cards at the Home Affair’s kiosks in their nearest bank, Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Tuesday. The Minister said this when he led a […]
During the many years of armed violence and persecution in our Nation, more than 250,000 of our fellow Liberians lost their lives, the Nation’s economy and infrastructure–houses, schools, clinics, roads and bridges were damaged, and more than 900,000 Liberians, out […]
The Government of Cote d’Ivoire and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in collaboration with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will jointly host the first Ministerial Conference on Statelessness in West Africa from February 23 […]
Ils seront des milliers de jeunes élèves à rater les examens du Baccalauréat et du Certificat de fin d’études élémentaires (Cfee) cette année, faute d’actes de naissance. Ces élèves de Tambacounda, de Kédougou, de Sédhiou ou encore de Thiès sont […]
Nelisiwe Mathe does not have a South African ID and her one-year-old baby cannot get a birth-certificate, so, as a result, together they are two stateless people born in South Africa, living in Tembisa. The 23-year-old has been frequenting Home […]
By Bronwen Manby On 10 February 2015 a ground-breaking but not-much-heralded document on human rights in Africa was launched in Côte d’Ivoire by the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. In the wake of […]
The Paramount Ruler of Bakassi in Cross River State, Etim Okon-Edet, has accused the federal government of abandoning indigenes of the community. He also appealed to the Federal Government to ensure proper resettlement of Bakassi indigenes who were displaced from […]
The Kenyan government will by March 2015 grant citizenship to at least 3,000 stateless people under a recent decree issued by President Uhuru Kenyatta. Registration of Makonde tribesmen, who originate from Mozambique, along with Pemba tribesmen from Zanzibar, officially began […]
Préambule: Nous, Ministres africains en charge des faits d’état civil, réunisà notre troisième Conférenceles 12 et 13 février 2015, àYamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire, souslethème, “Promouvoir l’utilisation de l’état civil et des statistiques des faits d’état civil en appui de la bonne […]
For the first time in West Africa, a regional meeting on stateless persons will bring together ministers in charge of questions of nationality in ECOWAS member countries. High-level Ivorian authorities will partici-pate in this conference, organized jointly by UNHCR and […]
The cry for the recognition of Makonde people from Mozambique in Kenya appears to have borne fruit. Finally the journey to register the stateless began in Msambweni constituency, Kwale county. The Makonde people are upbeat about the process. Watch video […]