The applicant was born in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, on 15 April 1944. His mother Enid Marjorie Whitehead was also born in this country on 11 April 1917. She lived and died in Zimbabwe on 17 September 2000. The applicant’s […]
Le ministre de la Communication a annoncé qu’il a tourné la page du débat concernant sa double nationalité. « J’ai clos ce débat-là. Le moment où je sentirai la nécessité de faire une réaction, je le ferai. Maintenant, s’il y […]
Ramnik Shah, “Kenya’s citizenship laws revisited”, Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, Vol.26, No.3, 2012, pp.269-277. Abstract: In ‘Britain and Kenya’s citizenship law: a conflict of laws’ ((1992) Vol 6, No 4 IANL ) I questioned the legality of […]
Emma Lochery, “Rendering difference visible: The Kenyan state and its Somali citizens”, African Affairs, Vol.111, No.445, 2012, pp.615–639. Abstract: This article examines the history of Somalis in Kenya. It argues that the precarious citizenship status of Kenyan Somalis is rooted in […]
Durban, South Africa, 6-7 Septembre 2012 A la lumière de ces recommandations, nous prenons les résolutions suivantes: a. Poursuivre nos efforts pour élaborer des politiques et des stratégies idoines afin de réformer et améliorer nos systèmes CRVS, et les intégrer […]
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association, led by the notorious Jabulani Sibanda, have done ZANU PF’s bidding and rejected the draft Constitution. Sibanda said his association would, ‘resist any attempts to foist foreign ideas on the people.’ Link to […]
Pretoria – Some countries on the African continent don’t have national population registers, resulting in a situation where children are born, live their lives and die, without ever being recorded. It is this sort of situation that African ministers responsible […]
WHEREAS, establishing a system of registration of vital events plays a key role in planning political, social and economic developments, in providing different social and economic services to citizens and in making the justice administration expedient and effective; WHEREAS, it […]
Martin Sharpe and Salima Namusomya, « Refugee Status Determination and the Rights of Recognized Refugees under Uganda’s Refugees Act 2006 », International Journal of Refugee Law Vol. 24 No. 3 pp. 561–578 Abtract In 2006 Uganda passed new domestic legislation relating to […]
Zimbabwe’s 10-yearly national population census was launched Saturday, a few days after thousands of soldiers threatened to take over the lucrative task by force. A spokesman for the state-run Zimbabwe Statistics office told local radio that the 30,000 enumerators were […]
by Michel Cousins The first law passed by the newly-elected National . . .[restrict]Congress bars Libyan citizens who also have another nationality from holding any high office in Congress. The motion, proposed by Muhammad Tumi of the National Front Party […]
On 21 July 2012, Tanzania’s Daily News reported that Tanzanian President, Jakaya Kikwete, had announced that “all refugee camps sheltering Burundian refugees would be closed down”. There was, the paper quoted him as saying, “no strong reason for the Burundians […]