Au Tchad, le gouvernement a lancé ce mercredi une campagne de délivrance d’actes de naissance à l’occasion de la Journée africaine de l’enregistrement des faits d’état civil. En effet, les trois-quarts des enfants de moins de cinq ans ne sont pas […]
In a major development to prevent statelessness, Liberia has amended its nationality law to grant women and men equal rights to confer nationality to their children. The President of Liberia signed into law an act to amend the Aliens and […]
Ines Rutayisire Umurerwa The government of Rwanda has set a target of having all babies born in the country to be registered at birth by the end of 2022. Current figures from the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) […]
By Derrick Wandera & Peter Sserugo The government has set aside Shs600b for renewal of the National ID, which starts in June next year. Addressing the media yesterday, Minister of Internal Affairs Kahinda Otafiire said the money would be used to purchase high-tech […]
La République du Congo a franchi une nouvelle étape dans la bataille contre l’apatridie avec l’adoption la semaine dernière par le Conseil des ministres d’un projet de décret portant création, attributions, organisation et fonctionnement du comité technique institutionnel d’éradication du […]
By MAUREEN NJERI The Shona will participate in their first ever General Election n Kenya nearly six decades after the community migrated from Zimbabwe. Speaking to BBC Africa, the community secretary general Oliver Muregerera was excited to finally exercise his civil […]
The President of the Republic, H.E. Dr. George Manneh Weah, has set yet another first-time-in-history record with the signing into law of a number of iconic bills towards spurring national inclusiveness and the fight against graft and corruption in the […]
Egyptian law allows citizens to be granted permission to naturalize a foreign nationality while retaining their Egyptian nationality and that makes them exempt from military service. Masry Al-Youm answers how the Egyptian expatriates obtain the approval of the Egyptian authorities […]
« Le projet de décret portant création, attributions, organisation et fonctionnement du comité technique institutionnel d’éradication de l’apatridie au Congo répond au souci de lutter contre la prolifération des cas d’apatridie », peut-on lire dans le compte rendu du Conseil de ministres du 3 […]
by CLAUSE MASIKA Data Rights and their Kenyan partner organisations the Kenya Human Rights Commission and the Nubian Rights Forum (NRF) are suing IDEMIA, one of the leading biometric tech companies in the world, before the Paris judicial tribunal. The […]
SPOUSAL and relative’s visas should be done away with because the system is being “abused by foreign nationals” to settle in SA, the ANC has said in an additional discussion document distributed to delegates at the policy conference on Friday […]
By Muhammad Kamal In December 2020, political and human rights activist Ghada Naguib became the first Egyptian citizen to be stripped of her nationality over her criticisms of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government and its human rights abuses. Naguib and […]