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Guinée: Nouveau Code civil (projet)

Published: 1/Fév/2016
Source: Ministère de la Justice de la République de Guinée

Tel qu’adopté par la Commission de révision du Code civil, Février 2016 Nationalité Les articles 50 à 53 du Code civil relatifs à l’acquisition de la nationalité par le mariage ont été abrogés et remplacés par les articles 69 à […]

Sierra Leone Constitutional Review Committee Abridged Draft Report

Published: 1/Fév/2016
Source: Sierra Leone Constitutional Review Committee

The Constitutional Review Committee (CRC) proposes a new chapter in the revised Constitution to be titled  Citizenship. The 1991 Constitution of Sierra Leone has no provision for the definition of citizenship but the word “citizen” is mentioned in various sections […]

Algérie: les binationaux bientôt exclus de la vie politique?

Published: 1/Fév/2016
Source: RFI

Le nouveau texte, présenté début janvier, exclut les binationaux de la vie politique algérienne. Ce week-end, le chef de cabinet de la présidence, Ahmed Ouyahia, a expliqué que si des binationaux étaient intéressés par la politique en Algérie, il n’avaient […]

Briefing Paper: Who Is Somaliland Citizen?

Published: 31/Jan/2016
Source: Center for Policy Analysis, Hargeisa, Somaliland

Legal Analysis on Somaliland Citizenship Law (Law No: 22/2002) By Hibak Ibrahim Gamute INTRODUCTION A citizen is a person who, by either birth or naturalization is a member of a political community, owing allegiance to the community and being entitled […]

11 members boycott Libya’s Constituent Assembly

Published: 28/Jan/2016
Source: The Libya Observer

11 members from the Libyan Constitution Drafting Assembly have boycotted assembly sessions in protest and decided not to recognize its outcomes. The boycotting members explained in a press conference in Tripoli on Thursday that during the recent period they had […]

Les lois sur la nationalité en Afrique : Une étude comparée

Published: 27/Jan/2016
Source: Open Society Foundations

Par Bronwen Manby La troisième édition de ce rapport qui présente une analyse comparative des codes africains de la nationalité. Il s’agit d’une révision complète du 2eme édition et des tableaux, qui sont également mis à jour pour refléter les […]

Egyptian woman who has joined Israeli army, stripped of citizenship

Published: 21/Jan/2016
Source: Gulf Digest News

The Egyptian Government has revoked the nationality of a female citizen who joined the Israeli army. Egypt’s Prime Minister Sharif Ismail issued a decree last Sunday sanctioning Dina Mohammed Ali Al-Masry, now known as Dina Ovadia. The decision was in […]

East African Community set to launch new general e-passport

Published: 19/Jan/2016
Source: Standard Digital

East African Community (EAC) citizens will soon be in a position to access the EAC e-passport, the bloc’s secretary general has announced. In a statement from the secretariat, EAC Secretary General Mr Richard Sezibera said that he is looking forward […]

Statelessness in Mauritania: A brief account of a long history of discrimination

Published: 19/Jan/2016
Source: The Legal Agenda

The general population and housing census conducted between March 25 and April 8, 2013 found that Mauritania has a population of 3,537,368. Youth constitute 50.7% of the population, women constitute 51%, and nomadic Bedouins constitute 1.09%. Twenty-seven percent of the […]

What does an amended constitution really change about Algeria?

Published: 19/Jan/2016
Source: The Washington Post

The Arab Spring came and went with little notice in Algeria. To be sure, all the conditions extant in those Arab countries that underwent violence-induced regime change – political oppression, social alienation, economic marginalization, cultural disillusionment – were equally present […]