Bilingual monthly information bulletin / Bulletin mensuel bilingue d’informations – N° 14 – août/septembre 2013 Special edition: « Bakassi peninsula under the complete sovereignty of Cameroon ». Downlad file: Le temps des realisations No.14 aout-sept 2013
Several thousand “illegal immigrants” have been expelled from Tanzania to Rwanda in the past month, which some are linking to a recent row between the two governments, as the BBC’s Prudent Nsengiyumva reports. Link to BBC website.
Compilation of extracts from concluding observations relating to nationality of UN human rights committees (ICCPR, CEDAW, CRC) for MENA countries, including Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt) Download file: Treaty body excerpts on nationality (285 kb)
By Mike Sanderson Following the secession of South Sudan from the Republic of Sudan on 9 July 2011 both countries have passed new citizenship legislation with dramatic effects for the rights of individuals in both countries. I assess these new legislative regimes […]
Une cinquantaine de ceux que les Burundais ont toujours appelés « les Arabes » ont organisé un sit-in hier, lundi 26 août devant les bureaux du Haut commissariat pour les réfugiés (HCR) au Burundi, pour réclamer que leur pays d’origine, […]
Police have been deployed heavily on the Uganda-Tanzania border post to prevent Rwandans expelled from Tanzania from entering Uganda. President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania last month ordered for the expulsion of at least 20, 000 Rwandans who have been living […]
On August 15, 2013, the United Nations Security Council issued a statement welcoming the peaceful end two days earlier of the special transitional regime that had been established for the Bakassi Peninsula. (Press Release, Security Council Press Statement on Bakassi […]
By Eric Kabeera The East African Community was revived in November 1999 when the treaty for its re-establishment was signed, and in 2009 Rwanda and Burundi joined the three founding members Uganda Tanzania and Kenya to expand to five countries […]
By Ray Naluyaga Tanzania has denied claims that its recent expulsion of illegal immigrants from the country’s Kagera region targeted Rwandans because of the souring in relations between the two countries. Director of Communications at Tanzania’s State House Salva Rweyemamu […]
The Rwanda Civil Society Platform has condemned the human rights violations being perpetrated by the government of Tanzania against Rwandans. Rwandans, Burundians as well as Tanzanians of Rwandan origin have in the past week been forcefully deported, from the Kagera […]
By ISAIAH MOREWAGAE Inspite of the obstinate stance of the Minister of Labour and Home Affairs in Parliament yesterday, Mmegi can disclose that 96-year old Alfred Khumalo – who was dislodged from a hospital bed in Selebi-Phikwe and deported to […]
Cameroon has formally taken full sovereignty of the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula, ceded by Nigeria in 2008. The territory was handed over after an International Court of Justice ruling, ending years of border skirmishes. The five-year UN-backed transition period exempted residents […]