By Luka Biong Deng The question of whether the Ngok Dinka of Abyei are citizens of South Sudan may seem strange to most people, who would answer it in the affirmative. But it seems a difficult question to a few, […]
In South Africa, which had the highest number of new asylum-seekers in the world in 2008, stateless migrants are inevitably present. What is surprising is that many people born on South African territory are also unable to access nationality in […]
CERD/C/DZA/CO/15-19 B.Aspects positifs 4.Le Comité se félicite de la révision constitutionnelle du 22 avril 2002 instituant la langue amazighe comme langue nationale. […] 8.Il note avec satisfaction les amendements apportés au code de la nationalité en février 2006 qui permettent […]
The real content of citizenship rights in the country is the theme of a high-level colloquium organized for Wednesday, February 20, in Abuja, to help remedy what constitutional experts believe is one of the major weaknesses of the Nigerian constitution […]
South Sudanese citizens possessing dual citizenship in outside countries remain the impetus behind corruption practices in the new nation, a senior member of South Sudan ruling party (SPLM) has said. Franco Douth Diu, the SPLM secretary for Leer County in […]
February 13, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan on Wednesday launched plans for compulsory civil registration at childbirth, in an attempt to count and account for every South Sudanese citizen. The exercise was launched at a seminar in the South Sudan […]
By Oroub el Abed Abstract The several flows of Palestinians who arrived in Egypt due to established fear of wars or due to professional and socio-economic reasons in the years 1948, 1956 and 1967 endeavoured to integrate in the Egyptian […]
Frederik Ngubane, 22, returned to South Africa, the country of his birth, in 2009, after spending his entire childhood in Kenya and Uganda. An orphan, Ngubane had lost all contact with his South African relatives, and soon after arriving in […]
The National Human Right Commission, NHRC, leads the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, OSIWA, and PREMIUM TIMES to debate the status of residency rights in Nigeria The National Human Right Commission (NHRC), along with the Open Society Initiative for […]
Article 9 9. Introduction 9.1 Les questions relatives à l’acquisition, le changement, la perte et la déchéance de la citoyenneté sont régies par la Constitution de 2005 et la loi sur la citoyenneté de 1992. Ces textes de loi sont […]
Decision of High Court at Nairobi (Nairobi Law Courts) on Petition 50 of 2011 relating to requirements to confirm the veracity of registration documents of all Kenyans of Somali origin. Download file: here
It has been three years and the senior manager of communications in the KwaZulu-Natal legislature, Leon Mbangwa, is still fighting a court battle for South African citizenship. Mbangwa successfully brought an application in the Pietermaritzburg High Court in August 2009 […]