By Henry Karmo Monrovia – Liberian Senators are providing contrary opinions on calls by President George Weah to revisit laws on citizenship, property ownership, and law to make people of non-Negro decent citizens of Liberia.In an off-the-agenda discussion (informal) while […]
4 Recommendations made on statelessness — by Sierra Leone, Namibia, Mexico 1 recommendation on acceding to the 1954 and 1961 Statelessness Conventions; 2 recommendations on eliminating gender discrimination in respect to the conferral of nationality; and 1 recommendation on promoting […]
Concernant la restriction sur la double nationalité, Weah a estimé que la plupart des Libériens qui sont également citoyens d’un autre pays ont probablement acquis cette nationalité supplémentaire pour échapper aux terribles atrocités qui ont caractérisé le conflit civil du […]
Report by Lennart Dodoo and Henry Karmo Monrovia – President George Manneh Weah has called for the repealing of the part of the Constitution that restricts Liberian citizenship to people of color He also called for the consideration of dual […]
A pointless and potentially dangerous controversy has recently been triggered by an argument about the extent of rights to be enjoyed by dual citizens of Sierra Leone. This is in part because the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) has opportunistically, […]
Pressure Group, Occupy Ghana, has written to the Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo, to complain about the blacklisting of certain names such as Nana, Nii, Junior, among others from being registered by the Births & Deaths Registry. Occupy Ghana in the letter argued that, […]
Speaking during a feedback meeting with civic organisations and stakeholders at Esigodini Town Council on Wednesday, Women in Leadership Development (WILD) programmes officer, Permanent Ngoma said children in the three provinces face challenges in accessing identity documents. “According to the […]
Report by Bettie K. Johnson Mbayo Monrovia – When President George Weah was Senator he had requested the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to issue his wife a Liberian passport. She was denied on grounds that she was not a Liberian […]
Selon un dernier rapport non encore publié de l’Unicef, 6% des enfants ne sont pas inscrits à l’état civil alors que 94% le sont déjà. Une source du ministère de l’intérieur précise que jusqu’à présent aucun chiffre indiquant le nombre […]
Le gouvernement comorien veut faire toute la lumière sur un juteux marché de passeports diplomatiques comoriens. Voir: https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/mayotte/enquete-vente-passeports-diplomatiques-aux-comores-progresse-551769.html
By Stefanie de Saude-Darbandi Incompetence, inconsistency and constant policy flip-flops by the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) is causing chaos among foreigners seeking residence and citizenship in South Africa. Despite exhaustive efforts by refugees, asylum seekers and skilled immigrants to […]
By Ali Amir Ahmed MORONI (Reuters) – Comoros has sold citizenship to nearly 52,000 foreigners since 2009, the government said in the first official statement on the scale of a passports-for-cash deal with Gulf states. Most of the documents had […]