Thanks to an external doctoral student under the supervision of professor René de Groot at Maastricht University, the future is looking a little bit brighter for the millions of Africans living without an official nationality. On 20 October, British scholar […]
by Valérie Stocker In the midst of the Libyan desert, a thousand kilometers south of Tripoli, a war divides two communities that had been living a brotherly life until the post-revolutionary vortex carried away their friendship. The Tebu, an ethnic […]
The Department of Home Affairs wants to make late birth registrations more difficult so that it can weed out chancers, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Fatima Chohan said on Tuesday. Speaking during the home affairs briefing in Parliament, she said: […]
La Conférence consultative d’Afrique de l’Ouest sur « le droit à la nationalité et l’apatridie : opportunités et défis », conjointement organisée par Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) et le Haut-Commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (UNHCR), s’est tenue à l’Hôtel […]
Une Conférence consultative d’Afrique de l’Ouest sur « le droit à la nationalité et l’apatridie : opportunités et défis », conjointement organisée par Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) et le Haut-Commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (UNHCR), […]
Le parlement va également examiner les projets de loi de ratification des ordonnances prises en vertu de l’habilitation législative accordée au gouvernement entre deux sessions. Ces ordonnances sont relatives, entre autres, à l’adhésion de notre pays à la convention relative […]
Publié par Stevie Mounombou Dans une interview à Echos du Nord, parue le 5 octobre courant, l’auteur de «Nouvelles affaires africaines – Mensonges et pillages au Gabon» dit détenir deux documents qui attestent de la filiation d’Ali Bongo. Pour lui, […]
It is estimated that only around 1% of the world’s population have two or more passports, making dual citizenship an exclusive privilege. “No man is an island” is the theme of this year’s upcoming Investment Agenda, being held in Johannesburg […]
(Constitutional Petition 34 of 2010) [2015] UGCC 9 (Judgment of 06 October 2015) Introduction The petitioners seek the interpretation of the Constitution in the manner we shall set out below expressed in their own words. 1 (a) that Article 12(2)(c) […]
No fewer than 300 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Bakassi local government area of Cross River on Friday benefited from the free medical outreach conducted by the 13 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Calabar. Brig.-Gen. Sani Mohammed, Commander of the Brigade, said […]
The consultative conference on citizenship and statelessness in West Africa ended this week after two days of fruitful exchanges in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, on 28-30 September. This event, which was organized by UNHCR, in close collaboration with Open Society Foundations, […]
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today concluded its consideration of the second periodic report of Sudan on the implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Kamal Ismael Saeed, State Minister […]