In an historic decision, the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has granted rights equivalent to permanent residency to the majority of applications that were submitted on ‘special grounds’ by a group of Angolan former refugees. These applications were the applicants’ […]
Breytenbachs highly recommends that children born outside South Africa to South African parents, be registered as South African citizens at the nearest SA Embassy / SA High Commission to where the parents reside. The application is done using a foreign […]
THE registration of births and deaths across the country can substitute for census with the construction of more registration centres, the chairman, National Population Commission (NPC), Eze Duruiheoma on Thursday disclosed. He said the about 4,000 birth registration centres in […]
By Penelope Paliani Kamanga The move to give Malawians identity cards has entered its second month with only 200,000 people registered out of the ambitious move to register 9 million by the end of this year. Malawi, which is the […]
Du 28 juin au 30 juin 2017 l’Etat du Cameroun a convié les camerounais de l’étranger au Forum de la diaspora baptisé «Fodias 2017». Durant ces assises qui ont eu lieu à Yaoundé dans la Région du Centre, le Quotidien […]
Jan Cronje, News24 Correspondent Cape Town – Over 1 000 former Angolan refugees were this week granted the right by the Department of Home Affairs to live and work in South Africa for a period of four years. The former […]
The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights joyfully welcomes the passage of Sierra Leone’s amended Citizenship Act, which now guarantees women and men the equal right to confer nationality on children. With this critical reform, only 25 countries remain worldwide […]
Jusqu’à l’adoption mercredi de la nouvelle loi sur la nationalité, les femmes de Sierra Leone ne pouvaient transmettre leur nationalité à leurs enfants nés à l’étranger, provoquant des problèmes dans la communauté des expatriés, notamment pour les enfants apatrides. Lire […]
Flagging off the ceremony yesterday, Governor Mohammed Abubakar directed all primary healthcare facilities and government hospitals in the state to establish desk officer dedicated to registration of birth. He explained that all relevant state government agencies and departments are to […]
By Anietie Akpan Calabar — About 97 Nigerians are feared killed as Cameroon Gendermes allegedly attacked residents of Bakassi over failure to pay a N100,000 boat levy.It was learnt that the attackers sacked mainly Nigerians from Akwa Ibom, Cross River […]
Cameroonian authorities evict Bakassi indigenes from the oil rich peninsula over failure to pay taxes The Bakassi indigenes accuse the Cameroonian government of violating the agreements reached for ceding their ancestral home The indigenes call on the international community to […]
CRC/C/CMR/CO/3-5 Enregistrement des naissances et nationalité 18.Le Comité salue la réforme du cadre législatif et institutionnel qui a permis d’améliorer le système d’enregistrement des naissances, notamment la création du Bureau national de l’état civil et l’extension du délai imparti pour […]