The Dual Citizenship clause has been retained in the final draft constitution. Article 18 of part four (4) of the final draft constitution states: “A citizen shall not lose citizenship by acquiring the citizenship of another country.” And the clause […]
A commission formed by the Cabinet to review pardons and citizenships granted by former president Mohamed Morsy to foreigners has revoked the citizenship of 800 people, including Palestinians, who obtained it illegally, according to security sources. Those include Hamas senior […]
The Nigerien Parliament on Wednesday passed a law authorising dual citizenship for all its citizens. A parliamentary source said in Niamey that the law was unanimously passed by members of the parliament. He said the law allowed Nigerien-born citizens to […]
[translation via Google translate] Security sources revealed that the committee set up by the Council of Ministers to review all the decisions issued by the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, to pardon prisoners and grant citizenship to foreigners, has completed its […]
Le Parlement nigérien a adopté lundi le nouveau code de la nationalité nigérienne autorisant la double nationalité à tous ses citoyens. Cette loi, votée à l’unanimité par les députés nationaux, permet à tout Nigérien d’origine d’acquérir une autre nationalité, sans […]
The Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration receives at least two requests on a weekly basis in which Namibian women married to foreigners request the ministry to help them trace the whereabouts of their ‘husbands’. Speaking in an interview with […]
By Sonia Farid | Special to Al Arabiya News Based on available information, Hisham Mohammad Ahmed al-Tayeb is the first Egyptian to be stripped of his citizenship. According to a cabinet decree issued on Oct. 15, the decision was taken […]
One way to think about the now controversial National Identity Card project is to ask what would happen if we can’t find the US$115 million that the National Identification Authority (NIA) is seeking, to enable it to build a robust […]
Vice President James Wani Igga says that South Sudan may not allow dual citizenship, on the basis that South Sudanese with two nationalities may not be fully committed to serve their country of origin. Addressing staff at the Ministry of […]
The question of whether arbitrary deprivation of nationality constitutes persecution for the purposes of a determination of refugee status has received increased attention in recent jurisprudence,however, no systematic argument has been made to date on the ordinary meaning of words, […]
Bujumbura, Burundi – Le gouvernement du Burundi a publié mercredi une déclaration pour saluer « avec une grande satisfaction » l’octroi, mardi, de la nationalité tanzanienne à quelque 162.000 Burundais réfugiés en Tanzanie dans les années 1970. On estime généralement à plus […]
By: Francis Markus The UN refugee agency has welcomed Tanzania’s decision to grant citizenship to 162,156 former Burundian refugees, marking the largest group in UNHCR’s history to which naturalisation has been offered by a country of first asylum as a […]