The UN has proposed that providing a “legal identity for all” is one of its Sustainable Development Goals, yet proposes to measure progress against this goal simply in terms of birth registration rates. Edgar A. Whitley and Bronwen Manby explore […]
The accounting officer in the Ministry of labour and Home Affairs Pearl Matome on Wednesday said more Zimbabweans have been given Botswana citizenship than other foreigners.Appearing before the Botswana parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, Matome said of the 15,000 people who […]
With enough money you can buy anything, even a foreign citizenship. And for the outrageously wealthy, the power to move and live wherever they like is worth paying for. “For families with means, it’s really just about giving yourself and […]
A l’origine de la controverse qui dure depuis des mois à Libreville, le livre (paru en octobre 2014) du journaliste français Pierre Péan, Nouvelles affaires africaines, selon lequel M. Bongo aurait falsifié son acte de naissance et serait en fait […]
With its continued concerted effort to maintain strong links and instil interests among those in diaspora about their homeland, the Malawi government is to hold talks with representatives of the Malawi community through the Malawi Diaspora in Europe from 28 […]
Similarly, not all Burundians living in Tanzania were convinced “citizenship” would solve their problems of social integration or protection in the country. Had they not been citizens in 1970s or in the 1990s or the early 2000s when civil war […]
Sixty-seven years after the Arab-Israeli War, 3,000 Palestinians remain forgotten and stateless in rural Egypt. By Emily Crane JEZIRET EL FADL, Egypt—Ghafra dreams of rain. Not the brief bursts of precipitation that mix with the desert dust here a few […]
The government and Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Wednesday, May 20th approved and endorsed the ‘Abidjan Ministerial Declaration’ on the eradication of statelessness. The declaration was endorsed at the 47th Ordinary Summit of […]
A pan-African think tank on Friday urged African countries to develop innovative ways to harness their large diaspora populations. Blessing Mberu, head of urbanization and well-being with African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), told Xinhua in Nairobi that the […]
The Maragoli community wants the legal and parliamentary affairs committee to consider their petition to be included in the 3rd schedule of the Ugandan constitution as one of the indigenous tribes. The community members are residents of Kiryandongo and Masindi […]
Former Wajir South MP Mahmud Sirat has been ordered to answer to charges of obtaining Kenyan citizenship falsely. Nairobi chief magistrate Lucy Mbugua made the ruling yesterday after Sirat’s lawyer Kethi Kilonzo applied for more time awaiting a Court of […]
Paragraph 25 states: Furthermore, the Summit expresses its support for the global campaign on the eradication of statelessness and approves the Abidjan Declaration adopted on 25th February 2015 in that respect. The Summit calls on Member States to decisively join […]