Extract: Article 22 Nationality Everyone born of a Sudanese mother or father has the inalienable right to Sudanese nationality, its duties, and obligations. Everyone who has lived in Sudan during their youth or who has been resident in Sudan for […]
[Believed to be adopted as Identification Act No.4 of 1998] The object of this Bill is to provide for compilation and maintenance of a population register in respect of the population of Swaziland; for the issuance of identity documents to […]
By Mahmood Mamdani Text of Inaugral Lecture as A C Jordan Professor of African Studies, University of Cape Town, Lecture Theatre 1, Education Building, Middle Campus, Wednesday 13 May 1998, 8.15 p.m. Download here
Original unamended version, which repealed and replaced the Citizenship Act of 1982 Download: Botswana Citizenship Act no 8 of 1998
UN symbol CCPR/C/79/Add.89 Concluding observations on initial report of Zimbabwe Extract: 19. The Committee notes with concern that the decision of the Supreme Court in Rattigan and others v. Chief Immigration Officer and Others has been nullified by an amendment […]
The Sierra Leone government has expelled 22 foreigners, mostly Lebanese, who allegedly had business dealings with the ousted military junta. The order of expulsion was signed personally by President Kabbah, according to a statement issued by the attorney-general’s office. « Their […]
Seventeenth session Extracts relevant to birth registratoin and nationality from the Concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, and state report to the Committee Download file: Concluding observations of the CRC on Libya (Excerpts) (30 […]
Replaced the Passport Services and National Identity Cards Services Act 1984; and itself repealed and replaced by Act No.5 of 2018. Download file: Lesotho Passports and Travel Documents Act 1998 (PDF)
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Swart v Minister of Home Affairs (1 of 1997) [1997] NAHC 2 (21 November 1997) MARITZ, A.J. The applicant is a South African citizen resident in Namibia. He has been so resident since 1982. It is his declared intention to […]
Communication 159/96 : Union interafricaine des droits de l’Homme, Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l’Homme, Rencontre africaine des droits de l’Homme, Organisation nationale des droits de l’Homme au Sénégal and Association malienne des droits de l’Homme / Angola. […]
The Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) and the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (ADFL) carried out massive killings of civilian refugees and other violations of basic principles of international humanitarian law during attacks on refugee camps in […]