Executive summary In the absence of a birth certificate, more than 6 million Burkinabe (34.5 per cent of the population) are unable to produce a proof of their identity. Lack of civil registration cuts citizens from fundamental rights, such as […]
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En 2014, la campagne mondiale #Ibelong a été lancée dans le but d’éradiquer l’apatridie d’ici à 2024. Depuis, les membres de la Communauté Économique des États d’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO) se sont fermement engagés à mettre un terme à ce […]
Legal Notice L.N. 208/2016 1.These Regulations may be cited as the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration (Amendment) Regulations, 2016. 2.Regulation 10 of the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Regulations, 2012, is amended by inserting the following new paragraph immediately after paragraph (2)- […]
Thirty-four members of the African-Caribbean diaspora in the country have been granted Ghanaian citizenship following the approval of the President John Dramani Mahama. At a ceremony in Accra yesterday to formalise the process, the 37 people were made to swear […]
Includes information about a November 2016 SADC Parliamentary Forum resolution “On the Prevention of Statelessness and the Protection of Stateless Persons in the SADC Region”, the grant of citizenship to members of the stateless Makonde community in Kenya, as well […]
By Chineme Okafor Abuja — The West African Civil Society Forum (WACSOF) has said that by virtue of Nigeria’s population and emergence of insurgency in the North East in 2009, the country currently contributes more to the 750,000 people that […]
By: Delali Adogla The incoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration intends to complete the National Identification system that was commenced by the erstwhile Kufour administration within its first year in office, President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo has said. Nana Akufo-Addo, who was speaking at […]
Par Mirna Adjami Résumé La Côte d’Ivoire est devenue partie aux deux conventions internationales sur l’apatridie en 2013 et s’est engagée à résoudre le problème de l’apatridie sur son territoire. Pour y parvenir, il lui faudra identifier et combler les […]
By Elias Yaa At least 295 members of the Makonde community have been issued with IDs as promised by President Uhuru Kenyatta in October. Kilifi county commissioner Joseph Keter said the number was reached after the second phase of the […]
A meeting that reviewed a study on statelessness has called on the federal government to amend the Constitution to accommodate stateless persons living in Nigeria. In the validation meeting on the study report on “Statelessness in North-East Nigeria,” organized by the […]
Le souverain vient d’annoncer aujourd’hui, par le biais de la Commission nationale chargée de la régularisation et l’intégration des migrants au Maroc, qu’une nouvelle campagne de régularisation des immigrés en situation irrégulière allait être lancée « dans l’immédiat ». La […]