Ganze MP Peter Shehe yesterday recorded a statement with the EACC affirming his Kenyan citizenship. The Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission was acting on anonymous leads that Shehe is not a Kenyan but a Swiss national. The petitioner wants Shehe’s […]
The West African Regional bloc ECOWAS has reached a landmark decision for its 15-member states that will allow ease of movement across borders for its citizens with the use of biometric identity cards. The announcement comes after the 48th Ordinary […]
Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa Emmanuel Mwamba says Zambians living in that country have praised President Edgar Lungu over the adoption of a dual citizenship clause in the amended constitution. Mr Mwamba said most Zambians living in South Africa […]
Mrs. Nella Andem-Rabana SAN Apart from being the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice of Cross River State from 1999 – 2003, Mrs. Nella Andem-Rabana SAN had the rare privilege of being on the team of counsel that represented Nigeria in […]
More South Africans are joining secondary citizenship investment programmes as they seek alternatives to living or studying in SA. Numerous South Africans have paid hundreds of thousands of rand to attain citizenship of Malta or other countries in order to […]
Government’s strategy to interest Ugandans working and living abroad to invest in their country through diaspora bond has hit a snag. The system, which already succeeded in Ethiopia, once in place, was meant to help Uganda cut on donor funds. […]
By Ferenc David Marko in Journal of East African Studies, Volume 9, 2015 – Issue 4, pp.669-684 Abstract In 2011, two days prior to its declaration of independence, South Sudan adopted a new nationality act and set up a bureaucracy […]
The Interior Ministry has formed a task force to address concerns raised by youth in Garissa County in getting national identity cards after their fingerprints appeared in the refugees database. Garissa County Commissioner James Kianda said the task force formed […]
Free movement of persons, goods, inauguration of Biometric Identity Cards and integration of West Africa countries begin on Jan. 1, 2016. President of ECOWAS Commission, Ambassador Kadré Ouedraogo, said this at the end of 48th Ordinary Session of Authority of […]
Includes information about a meeting held in South Africa by UNHCR and the Inter-Parliamentary Union on « Ensuring Everyone’s Right to a Nationality: The Role of Parliaments in Ending and Preventing Statelessness”; a workshop jointly organized by International Organization for Migration […]
The members of the Parliament of Mali gathered on Wednesday 16 December to adopt the texts on the accession to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Mali […]
Citizens from East Africa will begin travelling with one passport globally from next year as the East African Community (EAC) finally launches a common passport. The common passport, which has been in development for five years, is set to replace […]