juillet 11, 2024 9:45 pm
Publié par Bronwen Manby
Burnett Munthali LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-In a significant crackdown on corruption, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested eight immigration officers and two civilians involved in alleged corrupt practices related to the issuance of passports at the Lilongwe office of the Department of Immigration […]
juillet 10, 2024 8:46 pm
Publié par Bronwen Manby
For certain communities in Kenya, citizenship is presented as an issue of ineligibility, and as a matter of national security rather than rights. By Fred Nasubo and David Ngira Civil rights organisations and community-based organisations in Kenya have disparaged the […]
juillet 9, 2024 3:51 pm
Publié par Bronwen Manby
by Zelda Venter A Man who was more than three years ago suddenly stripped of his South African citizenship by Home Affairs, and who had in the meantime lost his job as a result, turned to the court for a […]
juillet 9, 2024 3:49 pm
Publié par Bronwen Manby
By Margaret Ebeshi, Abuja The African Diaspora Union (AFRIDU), has appealed to the Nigerian government to consider the option of granting citizenship for African Descendants who were victims of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja […]
juillet 1, 2024 6:05 pm
Publié par Bronwen Manby
By Ayang Macdonald After more than a decade of waiting, Gabonese will now be able to apply for and obtain a national digital ID card. The identity credential, known officially as the National Electronic Identity Card (CNIE), was launched last […]
juin 29, 2024 8:08 am
Publié par Bronwen Manby
South Africa’s Home Affairs fails court order, leaving 700,000 IDs blocked amid fraud suspicions unresolved. By Masoka Dube The department of home affairs (DHA) has failed to implement a court ruling instructing it to release some of the identity documents […]
juin 26, 2024 7:20 pm
Publié par Bronwen Manby
Par Caroline Tassot & Luis Iñaki Alberro En 2017, un quart de la population béninoise ne disposait pas d’un acte de naissance, et moins de la moitié détenait une carte d’identité nationale (CNI), un taux qui chutait à 37 % […]
juin 26, 2024 5:39 pm
Publié par Bronwen Manby
Amendments to the Immigration Act providing for a “special status” to be granted to members of the Tanzanian non-citizen diaspora (see parts V & VI). Download: Tanzania Written Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Bill 2024
juin 26, 2024 9:10 am
Publié par Bronwen Manby
Par Lakhdar Belaid La question des binationaux revient dans le débat politique. Originaire du Valenciennois, l’historien Nedjib Sidi Moussa rappelle que l’Algérie les exclut déjà de postes stratégiques. Et il est impossible, pour une personne née algérienne de renoncer à […]
juin 24, 2024 5:51 pm
Publié par Bronwen Manby
By Anna Chibamu PARLIAMENT has resolved to investigate the presence of undocumented people in Zimbabwe after Amnesty International took the government to task over the statelessness of hundreds of thousands. The human rights defender said many children were forced out […]
juin 21, 2024 3:24 pm
Publié par Bronwen Manby
Primrose Modisane, denied South African citizenship, fights decade-long battle for identity documentation and recognition. by Masoka Dube A Gauteng-based woman has been living a life of squalor because she does not have an identity document Primrose Modisane, 36, from Vosloorus […]
juin 19, 2024 6:50 pm
Publié par Bronwen Manby
In June 2023 the Pretoria High Court ruled that the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit was unlawfully terminated By Tania Broughton The Constitutional Court has dismissed an application by the Minister of Home Affairs for leave to appeal a June 2023 Pretoria […]
