Bouna, 05 juil (AIP)-Une mission du Haut Commissariat des nations unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) sejourne à Bouna dans le cadre de l’évaluation des activités de lutte contre l’apatridie dans la régio du Bounkani. Depuis mars 2018, le HCR a […]
By Reuben Githinji Another round of Huduma Namba registration will be done for the people who missed out on the extended period, Government Spokesman Cyrus Oguna has said. He said on Thursday that after the mass registration ended on May […]
It is so absurd, to the extent that without an ID, one cannot legally die, which is what happened to my father. He does not have a death certificate because he did not have an ID. The state neither recognized […]
Berlinda Entsie The government of Ghana says it will soon lay a bill before Parliament that allows persons with dual citizenship to hold public office in the country. The bill has been described as the Diaspora Engagement Policy Bill and […]
Abrogeant et remplaçant le Code civil de 1983. Promulgué par le Décret D/2019/222/PRG/SGG du 26 juillet 2019. Repeals and replaces the Code civil of 1983. TITRE IV: DE LA NATIONALITE SECTION I: DE L’ATTRIBUTION DE LA NATIONALITÉ GUINÉENNE EN RAISON […]
[Extract from: « Digital ID in Africa this week »] As the national ID card continuation is sworn into law, ID policy in Côte d’Ivoire is proving increasingly controversial. Notions of citizenship and nationality are coming to the fore again as the […]
Very few people attended the first day of the ZHRC public hearings at Flamboyant Hotel …as public criticises elitist approach, poor publicity By Clayton Shereni Public hearings on access to national documentation being conducted by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission […]
By Stephen Kwaku Asare | Professor at University of Florida and CDD-Ghana Democracy and Development Fellow in Public Law and Justice Ghana has declared 2019 as the “year of return” for Africans in the diaspora, as part of its commemoration […]
The CAPMAS disclosed that Egyptian males who have obtained approval to immigrate and those who have acquired immigrant status was 319, representing 82.9% of the total number of immigrants, meanwhile female immigrants were 66, representing only 17.1% from the total number. […]
Le Président Alassane Ouattara a promulgué le 26 juin 2019, la nouvelle loi instituant une nouvelle carte nationale biométrique en Côte d’Ivoire, dont le coût sera de 5 000 FCFA. Obligatoire à partir de 16 ans, la carte nationale d’identité ivoirienne, […]
Extracts: Mobilizing Governments and Civil Society From 16 to 18 April, a Ministerial Conference on the Eradication of Statelessness in the Great Lakes Region took place in Nairobi, Kenya. It was organized by the Government of Kenya, the International Conference […]
Kenya’s Pemba community have been living in statelessness for decades. The consequences of being unable to obtain legal documents and citizenship have grave consequences for community members- unable to access basic services, register birth certificates for their children and excluded […]