By Rodgers Luhwago in Dodoma THE Immigration department, in the 2021/2022 financial year, stepped up border security by instituting a number of measures, including installing an e-border management system and adopting e-immigration service provision system. […] Speaking on passport issuing, […]
Environ seulement 5% de financements des actions humanitaires passent par les acteurs locaux. Ceux-ci sont souvent préjudiciés par les critères d’éligibilité élaborés par les bailleurs. Conséquence : l’impact de la plupart des projets reste discutable. Il faut donc changer de […]
Extract: Statelessness workshop in Mwanza: In collaboration with the Government Focal Person on Statelessness, Dignity Kwanza and academia, UNHCR organized a Statelessness Workshop for Senior Government Officials from various ministries and departments (RITA, NIDA, National Bureau of Statistics, Commission for […]
Extracts relevant to Africa: Mobilizing governments and civil society On 14 February, in Kenya, the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) in collaboration with Haki Centre Organization, Kwale Human Rights Network and UNHCR, organized a meeting in Kwale County, between Members […]
By Munlini Mulera The imposition of the Tibuhaburwa Dynasty is now full steam ahead. General Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa’s contempt for the electoral regulations and military codes of the land will not be the last laws that he will set aside […]
By Abdul Rashid Thomas Last Thursday, 28th April, a day after the country celebrated its 61st Independence anniversary, President Bio of Sierra Leone welcomed a group of 59 African Americans to the country and granted them Sierra Leonean citizenship. Although […]
Including information on Benin, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Senegal, Sierra Leone & Togo. Extracts: Gambia Local integration remains the most viable option for Senegalese refugees. During the last verification exercise, the intention survey indicated that103 refugee households are willing to […]
By Stephen Jakes MATABELELAND REGION is the one that is currently having the largest population who are stateless due to Gukurahundi. This was revealed by the human rights activists recently during a debate over the importance of identity documents and […]
Finding that the prohibition of dual citizenship in section 15(1) and 15(4) of the Citizenship Act is unconstitutional. Download: Sithabile P Mathe & Ors v. AG Botswana High Court
Freetown, State House – 29 April 2022 Ministers of Government, The Chief Immigration Officer, Fellow citizens, especially those with whom we are grateful to be sharing our common ancestral home, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, Oona kusheh kusheh kusheh 1. It […]
By Polycarp Machira THE application of more than 6000 erstwhile Burundi nationals seeking naturalisation are being examined, the government said yesterday. Jumanne Sagini, the deputy minister for Home Affairs, told the National Assembly that the Burundi nationals were born to […]
A coalition of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have sued Government over alleged violations of human rights. CSOs claim that the mandatory nature of the national digital ID system in Uganda, Ndaga Muntu, has excluded poor and marginalized groups from access […]