DAKAR, 12 February 2014 (IRIN) – Twelve years after an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling demarcated the Cameroon-Nigeria border, the UN and the governments of Cameroon and Nigeria are making headway in physically laying down the border and helping […]
By Sesupo Rantsimako MANDUNYANE: Almost a year since the Minister of Labour and Home Affairs Edwin Batshu promised to resolve the citizenship crisis of Bazezuru of Mandunyane, news reaching the North Cast is that the matter remains unresolved. For the […]
Dewa Iliassa, a young Muslim, lives on a street in Bozoum, a town in northwestern Central African Republic (CAR), with only a small pile of his belongings. He says he is too scared to move more than about 200m in […]
By Dele Ogbodo Twelve years after the judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), referred to as the Greentree Agreement between the governments of Nigeria and Cameroun, the federal government at the weekend advised that Bakassi indigenes resident in […]
By Wolfram Lacher A multitude of armed groups and smuggling networks with transnational reach are driving southern Libya’s integration into the Sahel–Sahara region. Contrary to widespread external perceptions, the extremist presence remains a marginal phenomenon in the southwest (Fezzan), at […]
Liberian Citizenship was conferred on 59 Liberian Refugees in Ghana on Friday November 29, 2013 when they took an oath of allegiance administered by the Charge d’affaires of the Liberian Embassy in Ghana, Mrs. Musu Ruhle. The oath of allegiance […]
[The following is an English translation of a memorandum that was issued by a group of concerned Libyan citizens to the Constitutional Drafting Assembly on 20 August 2014 with respect to the right of Libyan women to pass on citizenship […]
By Ntsebeng Motsoeli MASERU — About 72 000 people have registered for birth certificates while 41 000 applied for identity cards since the launch of the National Identity and Civil Registration (NICR) project in July last year. Home Affairs Minister […]
A Cuban mother has turned to the Pretoria High Court in desperation as her 5-year-old daughter, who was born in South Africa, is at present a stateless person without any rights, as both the South African and Cuban governments refuse […]
LAWS OF SEYCHELLES: CHAPTER 30, CONSOLIDATED TO 6 JANUARY 2014 Act 18 of 1994, as amended by Act 11 of 2013 Supplementing the constitutional provisions on citizenship. Download: Seychelles Citizenship Act 1994 amended 2013
Hundreds of Cameroonians have been forcefully expelled from neighboring Equatorial Guinea for being in the country illegally. They are complaining that their property was seized and valid transit documents are not being recognized. Part of this issue appears to be […]
Samantha Balaton-Chrimes (2014) « Statelessness, identity cards and citizenship as status in the case of the Nubians of Kenya », Citizenship Studies, 18:1, 15-28 Statelessness as a legal and political problem has attracted increasing attention from scholars and international advocacy organisations in […]