LSE’s Katy Long argues that the West African model which allows refugees to become migrants is one way to end protracted refugees situations. There is a poster (see below) in my office at LSE. A shot of subway graffiti reading […]
By Charles Gichane NAIROBI, Kenya, July 11 – A Kenyan immigration lawyer based in the United States has cautioned Kenyans who are re-applying for their Kenyan citizenship and hence becoming dual citizens, to tread carefully and ensure they do not […]
By Sarnata Reynolds, Refugees International One year after South Sudan gained independence, many southerners are still waiting for the slips of paper that will prove they are citizens of the world’s newest nation and grant them access to employment, a […]
By Tichaona Sibanda For the first time in Zimbabwe’s history the new constitution will allow dual citizenship, a situation that could be capitalized on by people living in the Diaspora, to push for their right to vote in the next […]
Amends the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act, 2011 (No. 12 of 2011) as follows: S.4(2) Delete the word “undesirable” appearing in paragraph (f) and substitute therefor the word “inadmissible”. S.13(4) Delete the introductory portion and substitute therefor the following: “A […]
Journal officiel, 2012-07-06, n° 33 – Numéro spécial, pp. 6-72 Adoptée par l’Assemblée 29 juin 2012 Télécharger: https://legitogo.gouv.tg/be/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Pages-from-jo_2012-033Special-2.pdf Article 149 : Le divorce n’a aucun effet sur les droits acquis de l’homme ou de la femme en matière de nationalité […]
The text was further amended in 2014. Download file: Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act No12_of_2011 Amended 2012
U.N. rights chief Navi Pillay warned Tuesday that a half million South Sudanese in Sudan risk being left in a stateless limbo because of a nationality battle between the two countries. Link to Al Arabiya article: http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/07/04/224367.html
The United Nations refugee agency said a total of 23,000 Angolans have been repatriated since last year from neighbouring countries where their refugee status officially ended on Saturday. « Since February 2011, 23,000 Angolans have returned to their country, » the UNHCR’s […]
Submission to the Upper House of the National Assembly that highlights several provisions of the 1999 Constitution that increase the risk of statelessness, and makes recommendations for amendments, including safeguards against statelessness for children of unknown parents and the removal […]
(MBABANE 25 June 2012) The Swaziland government has renewed the contract of the country’s chief justice, who is a Lesotho national, saying there were no local judges suitable for the job, an official said on Monday. Michael Ramodibedi’s appointment comes […]
The Ugandan government says it is in discussions to legalize and grant naturalization to thousands of refugees who fled into the country in the 1960s and 1990s, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. At an event in […]