CROSS-BORDER DIARIES, Issue 10 This issue focuses on the Karakoro basin, situated in the pre-Sahelian zone between Mali and Mauritania. Local border populations and their respective governors are demonstrating a strong commitment to border development. Farming, sedentary and transhumant livestock […]
Chapter VI provides for citizenship. Download file here.
Art 1: “L’acquisition de la citoyenneté économique par décision de l’autorité publique résulte d’une décision accordée à la demande d’une personne majeure ayant la qualité de partenaire économique du Gouvernement des Comores” Télécharger (Al Watwan, p.2): Loi relative à la […]
By Rumbidzai Dube Identity documents are tags reflective of an individual’s history and heritage. Without identity documents individuals fall into a bureaucratic limbo as procedures for telling who they are, where they are from, and to whom they are connected […]
Lacy Andrews Gale Journal of Refugee Studies Vol. 21, No. 4 [2008]. doi:10.1093/jrs/fen040 What happens when refugees do not repatriate post-conflict? For those who remain in refugee camps, the remaining, durable solutions of resettlement and local integration may be neither […]
This report is in two parts. Part one examines present-day human rights conditions in Western Sahara. Part two examines present-day human rights conditions in the Sahrawi refugee camps administered by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and […]
3rd draft of the proposed new text for the constitutional amendments to form a government of national unity (not the version finally adopted).. Download file: here
Proposals from the opposition MDC for the constitutional amendments to form a governmnet of national unity (not the version finally adopted). Download file: here
The Gambia Refugee Act adopts the definition of a refugee from the 1951 Refugee Convention and the OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee. The Act also includes protection of stateless refugees within its definition, including any person « not […]
Proposals from ZANU-PF for the constitutional amendments to form a government of national unity (not the version finally adopted). Download file: here
This paper focuses on issues of belonging and exclusion for refugees who fled Burundi in the early 1970s and sought refuge in Tanzania. More than three decades later, and with a peace agreement ending active hostilities in Burundi, “durable solutions” […]
Michaela Pelican « Mbororo Claims to Regional Citizenship and Minority Status in North-West Cameroon », Africa, 2008, Vol. 78, No.4, pp 540-560 Abstract: Discourses on autochthony, citizenship and exclusion have become popular in Cameroon as well as in other parts of Africa, […]