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 […]
Now back in Zimbabwe, Barbara Nicholas says her children have been rendered stateless because of the failure by the UK Home Office to renew their passports. Nicholas says she and her family moved to the UK in 2003, where they […]
Depuis 2008, quelque 25 000 réfugiés mauritaniens, qui ont fui les violences de 1989 et ont vécu au Sénégal pendant près de 20 ans, sont rentrés en Mauritanie, mais en dépit des efforts considérables déployés pour les réinstaller dans leur […]
By Goitsemodimo Williams Members of the Bazezuru community in Mandunyane have asked for a meeting with labour and home affairs minister, Mr Edwin Batshu to discuss the contentious issues of citizenship and national registration. The residents made the request through […]
C’est en 2009 que le président de la République, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, avait pris la décision d’introduire l’usage des technologies de la biométrie dans la conception des documents d’identité (carte nationale d’identité, passeport, permis de conduire…). Ainsi, un projet […]
Zimbabweans in the diaspora are breaking the law by acquiring dual birth certificates for their children and the government says it will come down hard on them. “We do not allow dual citizenship in this country, when someone gives birth […]
By: Clement B. Mubanga From: Open University Law Journal 2013, Vol. 4, No. 1:7-19 Abstract Historically, Tanzania is composed of a medley of people. The latter are made of different origins due to a number of factors. With such a […]
Voter registration is widely recognized as one important means of ensuring that only eligible voters are able to participate in the electoral process. Indeed, most democratic countries have some sort of voter registration process that precedes the casting of a […]
A Bottleneck Analysis of the National Birth Registration System The purpose of this report is to examine the situation of birth registration in Nigeria, including: Integrating existing data, including RapidSMS data, regarding the scale of non-registration Outlining the profiles of […]
By Eirwen-Jane Pierrot To date there has been no comprehensive research on instances of statelessness in Egypt, which has negatively impacted how government, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and other organisations have been able to deal with […]
By Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha and Christophe van der Beken African Journal of International and Comparative Law 21.1 (2013): 32–49 Not a single federal arrangement has been successful in demarcating the territorial matrix of the federation into separate ethnically defined territorial […]
Adopted under Article 4 of Proclamation No.760-2012: Registration of vital events and national identity card. Download: Ethiopia Regulation-no-278-2012-vital-events-registration-agency