Haki na Sheria Initiative welcomes the government’s plan to issue national identity cards to 14,000 victims of double registration in Garissa on the 19th January 2022. Download: Haki na Sheria Press Release 18Jan2022
INTRODUCTION Jo Shaw, University of Edinburgh This introduction briefly presents our symposium on the recently published monograph by Robtel Neajai Pailey entitled Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia (Cambridge University Press, […]
SABC Cutting Edge – 20 minute feature on children excluded from school for lack of birth registration (including those with South African parents). Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjD7g_D41L0
Il a été interrogé par Top Fm sur les procédures concernant un bébé né sur le sol mauricien ou alors dans un avion ou sur un bateau. Mario Ayelou explique que le principe de droit du sol n’existe pas à […]
By Abudul Mahajubu, Researcher, Makerere University It’s been well over a century since the Nubian people arrived in Uganda from what was then Sudan, as the armed enforcers of the British colonial government. Over time, the new arrivals assimilated individuals […]
The Nigerian Government has deactivated biometric identification of human rights activist and former Presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore. The documents deactivated include the activist’s national identity card, permanent voter card, international passport and driver license. As a result of this, Sowore […]
Several dual-national prisoners of conscience have had to give up their Egyptian nationality in order to leave the country Egyptian-Palestinian Ramy Shaath’s release from prison after 900 days came as a huge relief to the rights activist and his family […]
By Fazilla Tembo The Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services has disclosed that it will start receiving and processing applications for dual citizenship from this month, January 2022. The department’s National Public Relations Officer, Wellington Chiponde, revealed on Tuesday that […]
« Le ministère des Affaires sociales et des Droits de la femme, en partenariat avec le Système des Nations Unies, notamment le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l’Enfance (UNICEF), organise une campagne d’identification des personnes sans acte de naissance dans la […]
Le gouvernement togolais a, annoncé que la délivrance des actes de naissances serait dès le début Janvier 2022, rendue gratuite pour toute la population. Si cette mesure venait à voir le jour, qu’en seraient-ils alors de ces frais que l’Etat […]
CAIRO, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Egyptian authorities have freed Egyptian-Palestinian rights activist Ramy Shaath from more than 900 days of detention after forcing him to renounce his Egyptian nationality, his family said in a statement on Saturday. The statement said […]
BY MIRIAM MANGWAYA GOVERNMENT has scrapped the US$20 electronic passport (e-passport) application fee following a public outcry over its controversial decision to award CBZ Bank the monopoly to process the application fees. Government last year gazetted Statutory Instrument (SI) 273 […]