by Ndapewoshali Shapwanale CABINET yesterday said government will abide by the Supreme Court ruling and grant citizenship to a child who was born in Namibia to Dutch parents, just days before the National Council was set to pass an amendment […]
Les Sénégalais les surnomment les « enfants fantômes ». Pourtant, dans le quartier de Sintian près de Kolda, en Casamance, tous les habitants les ont déjà vus. Il suffit de poser la question. Une main se tend alors en direction d’une bâtisse. Rien de […]
« Je ne serai pas surpris qu’on se mette à réfléchir à une disposition de la loi qui empercherait un Sénégalais, ayant eu une double nationalité et y ayant renoncé au profit de la nationalité sénégalaise, de se présenter à l’élection […]
Report on the proposed bill to amend the Constitution to define « ordinary residence » as « permanent residence » for the purposes of acquisition of citizenship at birth. Download file: Report of the National Council Select Committee
by Ndapewoshali Shapwanale THE home affairs ministry started giving ‘struggle kids’ citizenship certificates, birth certificates and identity cards. Minister Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana officially opened the nationwide special registration services in Windhoek, and assured the ‘struggle kids’ that there will be no […]
By Minister of Home Affairs and Immigration Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana FOLLOWING recent media attacks and innuendos by certain individuals and bodies aimed at the ministry of home affairs and the attorney general, it has become necessary for us to shed light […]
by Ndapewoshali Shapwanale SWAPO has instructed the National Council to pass the controversial Citizenship Bill. Swapo party chief whip in the National Council Lebbius Tobias allegedly called fellow party MPs individually to say he has orders from ‘seniors’ for them […]
The Ministry of Labour in collaboration with the Bureau of Immigration and Nationalization (BIN) and the Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA) has begun a nationwide enforcement of the issuance of the ECOWAS Biometric Identification Cards. According to a press release issued […]
La proposition consistant à faire renoncer à tout candidat à la Présidentielle sa ou ses nationalités cinq (5) ans avant le jour du scrutin émane d’un allié de l’Alliance Pour la République (APR). C’est la précision de Benoît Sambou qui […]
Zambia provides a distinctive case of national identity management. Even from before independence in 1964 the identity card has played a prominent role and by 2010 the National Registration Card (NRC) covered more than 83% of the population of 16 […]
Opinion in parliament has split over a Citizenship bill presented by MP Alaa Abdel Moneim containing an article abolishing the listing of citizens’ religion on national ID cards, to be discussed next Saturday. Parliamentary sources said that Ossama al-Abd, former […]
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