By Athuman Mtulya Dodoma — The government revealed that 110 foreign nationals received Tanzania citizenship in a period between July 2016 and March 2017. This was revealed by minister for home affairs Mr Mwigulu Nchemba on Tuesday as he was […]
M. Fatty a lancé cet appel, ce dimanche 7 mai 2017, à Banjul, en Gambie, lors de la cérémonie d’ouverture de la réunion des experts pour la validation du plan d’action pour l’éradication de l’apatridie en Afrique de l’Ouest. « Un enfant […]
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR, Regional Representative for West Africa, Liz Ahua, has said massive displacement in Nigeria’s North-East zone posed great dangers of statelessness for victims. Ahua, who stated this at the opening ceremony of a […]
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR, Regional Representative for West Africa, Liz Ahua, has said massive displacement in Nigeria’s North-East zone posed great dangers of statelessness for victims. Ahua, who stated this at the opening ceremony of a […]
Banjul, le 9 mai 2017 – Les Ministres de la Justice et de l’Intérieur des Etats membres de la Communauté Economique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO) ont adopté aujourd’hui un plan d’action régional pour l’éradication de l’apatridie en […]
By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – West Africa has become the first region in the world to adopt an action plan to end statelessness, aiming to help more than one million people without a nationality gain identity papers […]
Experts from within West Africa and outside are meeting in The Gambia to review a draft 8-year Plan of Action which set forth concrete measures to end statelessness in the sub-region by the year 2024. The Plan of Action is […]
Windhoek – Namibia is among a few countries in Africa to have digitalised the National Population Register, which is fully integrated, combining the birth, ID, marriage and death registers under one profile, Vice-President Nickey Iyambo has confirmed. Read more
Etre apatride, c’est ne pas avoir de nationalité. Cela peut sembler abstrait, mais dans les faits, cela implique beaucoup de choses. Impossible pour les enfants, par exemple, de se rendre dans les écoles qui demandent des extraits de naissance, puis […]
Mrs Liz Ahua, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Regional Representative for West Africa, says massive displacement in Nigeria’s North-East zone poses great dangers of statelessness for victims. Ahua said this on Sunday in Banjul at the opening […]
Banjul, le 7 mai 2017. Le ministre gambien de l’Intérieur, Mai Ahmad Fatty, a invité les Etats membres de la Communauté économique des Etats d’Afrique de l’ouest (Cedeao) à tout mettre en œuvre pour éradiquer l’apatridie dans l’espace communautaire. M. […]
Mrs Liz Ahua, the Regional Representative, UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), has described ECOWAS as a global pacesetter for its progress towards eradicating statelessness in the West Africa sub-region. Ahua said on Sunday in Banjul at the opening of […]