He noted that the 1995 Constitution allows a person who has lived in Uganda for a number of years to apply for citizenship – President Yoweri Museveni has assured the multi-racial community living in the country of their rights to […]
Low registration of births and deaths in Ghana is hampering the creation of a reliable national identification system, a senior official said here late Thursday. John Agbeko, Acting Director of the Department of Births and Deaths, said a functional national […]
IMANI was pleased to be invited by the World Bank and Citi FM, conveners of the National Identity System Roundtable on the 4th of February 2016, to deliver a paper on the ‘risks and opportunities’ inherent in the implementation of […]
The ECOWAS Commission on Friday said Senegal and Benin Republic were set to begin issuance of the ECOWAS Biometric Identity Cards which came into force in January. Amb. Kadre Ouedraogo, President of the Commission, said this in an interview with […]
Home is where you belong, where you feel connected. Imagine then what it is like to be born without a nationality or to be denied the citizenship of your mother, or, at times, your father, because of discrimination in the […]
JUBA, 03 February 2016 (UNHCR) — Chol Jacob was among half a million men, women and children who are at risk of becoming stateless in South Sudan, according to a UNHCR survey. Many have difficulty proving their links to South […]
Dadaab, in eastern Kenya, is the largest refugee camp in the world sheltering thousands of Somalis. Ben Rawlence, author of a new book, City of Thorns, chronicles the lives of people who live there. More.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Ghana will from February 15 to March 12, organise a series of activities to mark the first anniversary of the « Abidjan Ministerial Declaration » on the eradication of statelessness. It would be recalled […]
The draft revised Constitution « implicitly » enshrined the right to dual nationality for the Algerians, said Tuesday in Algiers, Adviser of President of the Republic Kamel Rezag Bara, lamenting the excessive readings about the article inherent to the limitation of access […]
Alors qu’en France la controverse sur la déchéance de nationalité pour les binationaux n’en finit plus, de l’autre côté de la Méditerranée, en Algérie, le sujet des binationaux occupent également le débat public. Pas du tout pour les mêmes raisons, […]
« La nationalité algérienne exclusive est requise pour l’accès aux hautes responsabilités de l’État et aux fonctions politiques »… En Algérie, depuis la présentation de l’avant-projet de loi de révision constitutionnelle, le 5 janvier 2015, l’article 51 qui interdit aux […]
Of at least 25 child refugees being held, Youssef Aden has served far longer than the average detention period. by Patrick Strickland Campaigners have called on Egypt to immediately release a 17-year-old Somali refugee who has been held for nearly […]