On Thursday, the minister of Labour and Home Affairs Edwin Batshu said the Department of Immigration and Citizenship has, this year, approved 567 applications from people wishing to resume their Botswana citizenship. By GOTHATAONE MOENG He said in 2010, the […]
By Bronwen Manby On July 9, 2011, the Republic of South Sudan became Africa’s newest independent state. Among the many issues that were supposed to have been resolved before the formal secession of the new state—in fact, before the January […]
Judgment in the case of Adamu Garba and 20 Ors v Federal Attorney General of Nigeria and 13 Ors was delivered on December 16, 2011 by Hon. Justice Mohammed Lawal Shuaibu of the Federal High Court in Kaduna. In his […]
Mervat Ayoub It should come as no surprise that, with the Camp David Peace Accord in effect, Egyptians go to Israel for business or pleasure. Once there, young men may marry Israeli women, have children, and more often than not […]
A compilation and analysis of pledges submitted during the UNHCR ministerial meeting to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness […]
Beth Elise Whitaker Volume: 45 issue: 4, 2011, pp.755-783 Abstract In recent decades, more countries have started to recognize dual citizenship. Although overlooked in the literature, Africa is part of this trend with more than half of its governments now […]
By NELSON DIRENG The Speaker of the National Assembly Margaret Nasha came to President Ian Khama’s rescue as opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) demanded to know whether it is true that Khama enjoys dual citizenship – these being Botswana and […]
By Mary Harper Do you know what the Kenyan police call Somalis?” asked a successful Somali businessman from his office in downtown Nairobi. “They call us ATM machines. That’s because the only way we can navigate the situation here is […]
By Gianluca P. Parolin, EUDO Citizenship expert for Egypt Arab state authorities have quite consistently refused to naturalise Palestinians or their offspring in a move to allegedly protect Palestinian identity from vanishing with full integration in the host countries, often against […]
By Laura Bingham The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) will meet for its 18th Session in Algiers next week (November 27 – December 1, 2011), providing an important occasion for states, civil […]
LAWRENCE SERETSE Correspondent Thousands of Batswana who have taken their citizenship for granted until now are reeling in shock after learning that they are foreigners; that is, they are not recognised as Batswana. The problem is that many of them […]
By Frank Jacobs Borderlines If it bleeds, it leads, goes the journalistic dictum. But the reverse is also true, which is why, through all the millions of words published in the last nine months about Libya, you’ve never heard of […]