Trois ans après l’adoption de la Déclaration d’Abidjan par les 15 Etats de la CEDEAO, de nombreux progrès ont été réalisés en vue d’éradiquer l’apatridie en Afrique de l’Ouest Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 25 février 2018 – L’Afrique de l’Ouest célèbre […]
The U.N. refugee agency reports the Mauritanian Government is issuing birth certificates to thousands of Malian refugee children who were born in Mbera camp, conferring important legal protections upon them. Refugee children who lack a birth certificate more often than […]
Cette déclaration faite le 25 février 2015 vise à trouver des solutions à la grande vulnérabilité́ des apatrides d’ici à 2024, à travers vingt-cinq mesures majeures… PAR M. SANSAN KAMBILÉ, Garde des Sceaux, Ministre de la Justice et des Droits […]
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Cécile Pouilly – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the […]
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By Qaabata Boru & Roland Kalamo On Tuesday, February 20th, 2018: A large movement of refugees – some report several thousand – departed on foot from the Kiziba refugee camp in Western Rwanda. Leaders declared that they were repatriating to […]
By Sam Kisika The deported self-proclaimed NRM General Miguna Miguna will have to follow due process to reclaim his Kenyan citizenship, the government has said. The outgoing Immigration Director Gordon Kihalangwa told MPs on Wednesday that Miguna will only be […]
Tanzania was lauded for offering citizenship to 200,000 Burundians, the largest-ever mass naturalization of refugees. But a political stalemate emerged between humanitarians and the government, leaving refugees stuck in the middle, explains researcher Amelia Kuch. During Europe’s so-called migrant crisis of […]
By Ibrahim Al-bakri Nyei President Weah has expressed strong support for the legalization of dual-citizenship for Liberians and the possible granting of Liberian citizenship to non-Negroes. While he might have personal and political incentives, the urgency his administration gives to […]
RiverGee County Senator Conmany B. Wesseh seems to be in support of President George Weah’s recent suggestions for dual citizenship in Liberia, including granting land ownership right to non-Negroes. Appearing on Power FM, a local radio station in Monrovia on […]
By DR KORIR SING’OEI The deportation of Miguna Miguna has brought to the fore the need to reflect on the citizenship regime introduced by the 2010 Constitution, and the enabling regulatory framework embodied in the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act […]
By Jill Cottrell-Ghai Citizenship, as an idea, has two main aspects. One is a rather technical, legal, one, conveyed also by the word ‘nationality’. The other is a broad, active concept, of the person as a member of a community, […]