By Samson A. Bezabeh, African Affairs Vol. 110, No. 441, 2011, pp: 587-606 This article investigates the dynamics and politics of citizenship in Djibouti, where the issue of who qualifies as a citizen has long been controversial. While debates about citizenship and […]
The purpose of this act is to establish a national registration body to provide the government with information related to emigration, immigration, development and national planning. The registration body is placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Interior, and […]
Zambia’s opposition has taken court action to declare the president ineligible for office because his father was allegedly a foreigner. Zambia’s constitution says both parents of a presidential candidate must be citizens by birth or descent. The Patriotic Front (PF) […]
Opinion Piece in the Natal Mercury by Jessica George, Lawyers for Human Rights If you spend an afternoon near the Beit Bridge border, 18km from Musina, you may encounter a group of boys playing soccer in the street. Typical teenagers, […]
An Act to Repeal PRC Decree #65 Establishing the National Identification Card System and to Establish in lieu thereof the National Identification Registry Download: Liberia NIR Act 2011
By Frank Kimboy, Dodoma. Tanzania could grant dual citizenship to its nationals as early as 2014, Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation minister Bernard Membe said yesterday. The minister told Parliament that the ministry and other relevant institutions of the government […]
By Constance Johnson (July 20, 2011) On July 13, 2011, the Parliament of Sudan passed a law that ends Sudanese citizenship for residents of the newly independent state of South Sudan. Although the legislation had yet to have its third […]
July 17, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s governing National Congress Party (NCP) has reaffirmed refusal to granting dual-citizenship to Southern Sudanese, in contrast with pledges by South Sudan to grant citizenship to northern Sudanese. Read further: http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article39557
Over the past ten days or so the government in Khartoum has taken a series of steps to translate its consequently racist nationalism into law. The National Assembly approved in principle a set of amendments to the Nationality Law that […]
CRC/C/EGY/CO/3-4 Enregistrement des naissances 42.Le Comité se félicite que la loi relative à l’enfance (2008) reconnaisse aux deux parents le droit de déclarer la naissance d’un enfant ou de demander un acte de naissance, et que le droit universel à […]
Repeals and replaces the law of 1990. Article 3 provides that children acquire nationality at birth if either or both parents are Equatoguinean. Article 5 provides the right to opt for nationality to the spouses of Equatoguinean citizens and those […]
By Mahmood Mamdani ‘East Africa has two post-colonial traditions of citizenship’, writes Mahmood Mamdani: territorial and ethnic. If the region is to have a political federation, it will need to be based on a common citizenship, he argues: ‘Which one […]