By Naohiko Omata This paper investigates the challenges of resolving the protracted Liberian refugee situation in Ghana. despite the restored stability in Liberia and the unfavourable living conditions in exile, as of 2011, there were still about 11,000 Liberian refugees […]
By Michael P. Okom, J. A. Dada Abstract The issue of ECOWAS citizenship is intriguing and undeniably complex. The Protocol on the Definition of ECOWAS Citizenship includes other onerous requirements which the Protocol failed to clarify. This lack of clarity […]
By Ulf Laessing and Yara Bayoumy Sultan Kwaje’s problems started when his country disappeared from under him. He was born in the southern part of Sudan but has lived in the north for more than three decades. When South Sudan […]
Le gouvernement mauritanien a lancé depuis mai 2011 une vaste opération de recensement de la population mauritanienne. Le lancement de ce projet a été organisé, selon la Fédération Internationale des Droits de l’Homme, sans concertation avec les partenaires politiques. Les […]
Unofficial translation: Article 5 THE PEOPLE 1. The people of Puntland State are the citizens of Puntland and any person who has acquired Puntland citizenship in a legal manner. 2. A special law shall define Puntland citizenship, the right to […]
Press release from the South Sudan government declaring « All nationals of the Republic of Sudan are declared foriegners as of 9th April 2012 ». Download file: here.
Editorial Although it was an agreement between the two nations, Sudan and South Sudan, to handle the citizenship issue in their respective territories responsibly and allowing Sudan to reassert its position as regards the estimated 500,000 South Sudanese plus who […]
By Ulf Laessing KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Scared and confused, hundreds of South Sudanese were stranded at Khartoum airport on Monday after being denied permission to board their flights to the south in a dispute over their legal status. Read further: […]
By Magdi El Gizouli Today, 8 April, is the date set by the Sudanese authorities as a final deadline for the South Sudanese in the country to ‘regularise’ their resident status as foreigners or face unidentified punitive measures. According to […]
These Guidelines address procedures that are aimed specifically, if not exclusively, at determining whether an individual is stateless. Moreover, the focus of these Guidelines is on the concept of stateless person as defined in the 1954 Convention and on the […]
By Chidi Odinkalu The peninsula of Bakassi has long been the subject of a territorial dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria. Now it shows what can happen to people when control over the territory where they live shifts from one country […]
By Kusali Kubwalo LILONGWE, Malawi, 30 March 2012 – This week, Malawi celebrates the start of a universal and compulsory birth registration process. At a ceremony marking the event, Nicholas Dausi, Deputy Minister in the Office of the President and […]