By Chris Onyemenam, DG/CEO, National Identity Management Commission, NIMC. As government agencies (MDAs) began to migrate from manual records to semi-automated and electronic processing, with the advent of biometric identification and smart card technology, the quest for data capture activities […]
opinion By Duke Mwancha Recent news on issues of citizenship, statelessness and marginalisation have featured Nubian, Makonde, Shona, Somali and Arab communities in Kenya. These are groups with historical or ethnic ties to other countries who have either been rendered […]
They were installed yesterday in Yaounde by the Delegate General for National Security, Martin Mbarga Nguélé.Members of the committee charged with the supervision of the operations for the putting in place of the new security identification system in Cameroon have […]
L’obtention du Certificat de Nationalité, document de base pour tout citoyen, reste encore un parcours de combattant au Togo. La situation paraît difficile pour beaucoup de citoyens. Pour acquérir le certificat de la nationalité, il faut passer par des procédures […]
Long queues of people at Police Stations in Douala are unusual. Instead, such queues are often noticed during Public Service competitive entrance examinations, job recruitments or the free issuance of National Identity Cards in preparation for elections. But the situation […]
L’obtention du Certificat de Nationalité, document de base pour tout citoyen, reste encore un parcours de combattant au Togo. La situation paraît difficile pour beaucoup de citoyens. Pour acquérir le certificat de la nationalité, il faut passer par des procédures […]
Compilation of documents related to a petition dated 10 August 2015 from the Maragoli to the Attorney General for guidance on the legal status of the Maragoli, and the official responses (in reverse date order from 2016). Maragoli petition to […]
By Alex T. Magaisa The legal position on dual citizenship is fairly simple and straightforward on paper (on paper, because as this article shows, the administrative machinery is deliberately obstructive, stubborn and inefficient). Otherwise the legal position is clear: Any […]
Paragraph 11 notes that « The Commission further considered and adopted the draft Protocol on the Right to Nationality ». Download report from the African Commission website. Background to the adoption of the draft protocol can be found in the Intersession Activity […]
Certaines personnes semblent ignorer l’importance de l’enregistrement à l’état civil. Ce n’est que lorsqu’il y a un besoin immédiat que les gens pensent à declarer juste pour avoir un papier à l’état civil. Et, pourtant, c’est à travers l’acte de […]
Les résultats du quatrième recensement général mené en 2014 ont été dévoilés par le gouvernement de la Côte d’Ivoire au cours des derniers jours. Des chiffres qui dressent un portrait de la société ivoirienne, à trois mois de la présidentielle. […]
MORE than 100 old people living at Divundu in Kavango East and surrounding areas have not been receiving pension grants because they do not have proof they are Namibian citizens. One of the elders, Sophia Diwandamo (85) from Mutjuku village […]