By Murphy Nganga Cape Town – With the goal of humanizing the experience of statelessness, the Jesuit Refugee Service South Africa (JRS) launched a campaign to raise awareness about the lives of young people born to refugees who encounter numerous […]
CIVIL SUIT NO. 437 OF 2019 JUDGMENT The plaintiffs instituted this suit against the defendant seeking for orders that; A declaration that the plaintiffs and other eligible members of the Uganda Somali’s Community are citizens by birth. A declaration that […]
On Friday, March 11, 2022, the National Identification (ID) Program hosted its first “Digital Identification Proclamation Consultation” with invited officials and guests at the Ethiopian Skylight Hotel. Over 200 key stakeholders representing Federal ministries and government agencies, regional governments, civil […]
By Ayang Macdonald Zambia’s parliament has been told that work to put in place a new biometric ID system dubbed the Integrated National Registration Information System (INRIS) has started, with the biometrics of at least 15,000 Zambians already captured for […]
Le 10 mars 2022, à l’hôtel de ville de Yaoundé, le ministre de la Décentralisation et du Développement Local (Minddevel) Georges Elanga Obam a présidé la cérémonie officielle de lancement de l’opération de comptabilisation des actes d’état civil existants depuis […]
Le Ministère de l’administration territoriale, de la décentralisation et de la sécurité avec le soutien du Haut-commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) a organisé un atelier de renforcement des capacités sur la problématique de l’apatridie au Burkina Faso. […]
By Ayang Macdonald Isidore O., a 25-year-old Cameroonian living in the town of Bangem in the South West Region of the country applied for the national digital identity card in early 2018. By December 2021, Isidore had become extremely frustrated […]
By Kamau Muthoni The Court of Appeal has dismissed a plea by the government to continue issuing Huduma Namba cards without conducting impact assessment on data protection. A three-judge bench comprising justices Agnes Murgor, Mbogholi Msagha and Imana Ldaibuta ruled […]
The lawmakers’ decision on International Women’s Day came hours after simultaneous protests by women in four states. By Ope Adetayo and Eromo Egbejule Nigeria’s lower house of parliament has rescinded its decision on three bills that it discarded at a […]
The Juba-born politician and activist is fighting for her position in parliament, her citizenship and her life. By Zeinab Mohammed Salih On December 22, 2021, Animu Athiei was leaving a café at the airport road of the South Sudanese capital […]
Nationality laws which do not grant women equality with men in conferring nationality to their children are a cause of statelessness and a concern for UNHCR under its mandate to prevent and reduce statelessness. Since 2012, UNHCR has issued an […]
The National Council for Law Reporting has launched a compilation of court judgments on citizenship disputes in and outside Kenya to offer policymakers and legislators diverse views and interpretations of the right to nationality and citizenship. The multi-volume book, Citizenship […]