Malgré les difficultés, des milliers de Touaregs s’installent à Zouara, fuyant la guerre et la misère qui gangrènent leur région agitée Par Karlos Zurutuza ZOUARA, Libye – Il n’est pas facile de balayer les rues d’une ville en lutte perpétuelle face […]
Case No.1289/17 Judgment dismissing an appeal against a High Court order that the Minister of Home Affairs should adopt regulations enabling an application for naturalisation at majority for those born in South Africa, as provided for under s.4(3) of the […]
Minister of Home Affairs v Miriam Ali Today, the Supreme Court of Appeal handed down judgment confirming the Western Cape High Court’s (WCHC) position, which provides that children born in South Africa to foreign national parents are entitled to apply […]
By Satang Nabaneh The ongoing public consultations on the constitutional review process spearheaded by the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) highlights a polarising debate on citizenship which reflects the difficulty of consensus building given the varied interests of stakeholders. Few of […]
La communication concerne Mme Iman Hassan Benjamin qui n’a pas pu assister à ses études universitaires en raison du manque de carte d’identité nationale, et plus devient apatride. On lui a refusé une carte d’identité parce que son défunt père serait […]
Time is running out for Ebenezer Odei to get the funding he needs to be able to attend university in 2019. Odei is a matric learner at Grassy Park High School. His parents are Ghanaian and came to South Africa […]
Botul and her four children are members of Kenya’s Nubian community. Despite the fact that Nubians are Kenyan citizens, these Muslim-majority ethnic and tribal groups are forced to undergo a lengthy and discriminatory vetting process to obtain the identity documents […]
By Mathews Musukwa Zambia has joined the rest of the world in a campaign to end statelessness through a decade of Global Action Plan to End Statelessness. […] In Zambia, an undisclosed number of persons mostly migrants, refugees and persons […]
A new report commissioned for UNHCR, The UN Refugee Agency, warns that thousands of people living in the East African Community (EAC), namely Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda are stateless or at risk of statelessness. The report details […]
The Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the poorest countries in the world has one of the most expensive passports and Comoros issues diplomatic passports to non-Comorians. By TAMA MULE Albert Karaziwan is a multi-millionaire who in 1992 founded Semlex, […]
Egypt’s interior ministry has approved requests by 44 Egyptians to acquire a foreign nationality without retaining their Egyptian citizenship. The decision was published in Egypt’s official gazette on Wednesday. The ministry explained that the decision comes per the constitution and […]
CRC/C/MOZ/3-4 Rapport valant troisième et quatrième rapports périodiques soumis par le Mozambique en application de l’article 44 de la Convention, attendus en 2016 * A.Nom et nationalité (art. 7) 135.Le droit de l’enfant mozambicain à un nom et à une nationalité est […]