Depuis des décennies, Koalou, un lopin de terre de 68 km2 est source de litige frontalier entre le Burkina Faso et son voisin, le Bénin. En 2009, cette localité a été érigée en une zone à statut particulier par les […]
According to Niger’s interior ministry, more than 60 percent of displaced people no longer have identification documents to prove their nationality. “No birth certificate or no identity document means the basic rights of the target population will be violated and […]
Bakassi returnees in Cross River state have called for permanent resettlement and intervention to improve their welfare. The leaders of the returnees made the demand in interviews in Akpabuyo, Cross River. The leaders are Etim Ene, Okon Etim Effiom and […]
Hamida Malahassen runs a successful business in Kibera, Kenya’s largest informal settlement, but her case is unique. Being Nubian, she has faced lots of challenges in applying for citizenship. And without a Kenyan identity card that enables one to be […]
The proposed adoption of the dual citizenship clause in the Zambian constitution through Parliament is a double-edged sword that is bound to hurt ordinary Zambians more and reverse the drive for indigenous Zambian participation in the economy. The first 27 […]
Zimbabwe’s Prosecutor-General, Johannes Tomana, has had some odd things to say in the past, but none weirder than his latest comments on child rape and child marriage as published in The Chronicle last week. The sum effect of his statements […]
Four-year-old Mariza Iussufo is perhaps not fully aware of the life-changing event that happened to her today, when the enthusiastic crowd at Namachilo community suddenly turned silent as her name was called out. As she quickly replied “yes” with her […]
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice (ECCJ) on Wednesday, June 17, 2015, signed a partnership agreement on training, capacity building and information sharing in Abuja, Nigeria. A dispatch from the Liberian […]
The National Director of Civil Identification in Mozambique, Domingos Jofane has said more than 30,000 of his compatriots living and working in South Africa already have biometric identity cards and passports.He said this is part of a campaign promoted by […]
The Young Women Christian Association (YWCA) has supported Cabinet’s decision to approve the dual citizenship proposal and regard it as a non-contentious issues which should be presented in parliament for enactment into the new constitution of Zambia. YWCA national president […]
President Lungu has assured Zambians in the diaspora of the much-desired dual citizenship if Parliament approves the proposal in the draft constitution. And the President has called on African countries to change society’s perception of women and begin to consider […]
The Constitutional Court has called for the enactment of legislation that recognises dual citizenship and spells out how lost citizenship can be restored to make the Mutumwa Mawere judgment enforceable. In a full judgment availed recently under Constitutional Court of […]