By Felix Olick Fiery lawyer Miguna Miguna says that for three days he has been held captive in a filthy and cramped toilet since he landed on Monday at JKIA. The self-declared NRM ‘general’, who was dramatically detained after a […]
Kenyan authorities should comply with court orders to release or produce in court the opposition lawyer Miguna Miguna, Human Rights Watch said today. Miguna, a Kenyan citizen who is being held in Kenya’s main airport in Nairobi, the Jomo Kenyatta […]
By Bekezela Phakathi Parliament is pushing to get to the bottom of the controversial decision by the Department of Home Affairs to grant some members of the Gupta family South African citizenship. The home affairs portfolio committee agreed on Tuesday […]
NEW YORK—The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has taken a significant step to strengthen the right to nationality, in a case brought by a Tanzanian man who found himself forced to live in the no-man’s land between […]
By CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO The drama elicited by opposition activist Miguna Miguna’s deportation to Canada and the chaos around attempts to deport him a second time earlier in the week after the court ordered his passport returned has taken Kenya to […]
By Stella Cherono Impasse over lawyer Miguna Miguna’s return to Kenya persists at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi as his lawyer Cliff Ombeta says he will not fill citizenship forms issued by the Immigration department. Mr Ombeta on Tuesday […]
By Wangui Ngechu The immigration department has moved in to resolve the Miguna Miguna entry standoff by sending application forms to the airport for him to regularise his citizenship status. In a press statement, Acting Director of Immigration Services Joseph Munywoki […]
Minister Malusi Gigaba will finally account to the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs, after it agreed to hold a full inquiry into the process that led to members of the Gupta family receiving early naturalisation. The committee met on Tuesday […]
By Jonathan Paye-Layleh Tony Hage has lived in Liberia for more than 50 years. It is where he went to university. Where he met his wife. Where he set up his successful business. He has stayed when so many others […]
By KAZUNGU SAMUEL & FADHILI FREDRICK Expectant faces greet us when we arrive at Makongeni village off Likoni-Lunga Lunga road. The sleepy hamlet is home to the Makonde people who migrated here from Mozambique in the 1930s to work in […]
Un appel de l’IRDH, émis le 24 mars à Lubumbashi, dans le Katanga, exhorte la société civile congolaise à veiller à l’usage du critère de la nationalité, l’un des seuls légaux du vetting de tous les candidats aux élections de […]
Par Kamardine Soule De l’argent de la vente des passeports, les comoriens n’auront connu que le vertige des chiffres. Dans ce dossier, qui commence par un texte introductif d’opinion sur l’utilisation des revenus issus du programme de la citoyenneté économique, […]