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 […]
Adopted immediately after the secession of South Sudan from Sudan. Article 8 provides that: (1) A person born before or after this Act has entered into force shall be considered a South Sudanese National by birth if such person meets […]
Article 43 states « Every person born to a South Sudanese mother or father shall have an inalienable right to enjoy South Sudanese citizenship and nationality. » Download file: South Sudan Transitional Constitution 2011
With just weeks to go before a 27-month moratorium on deporting Zimbabweans living illegally in South Africa expires, the authorities are scrambling to complete a documentation process that will still leave hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans lacking the necessary permits […]
(HC 7248/10) [2011] ZWHHC 128 MAVANGIRA J: This matter was heard on 24 March 2011. On 31 March 2011 this court issued an order in the following terms: “IT IS DECLARED THAT: 1. The applicant is a citizen of Zimbabwe […]
Charlotte Lee Miller, « Who are the “permanent inhabitants” of the state?: citizenship policies and border controls in Tanzania, 1920-1980. » PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) thesis, University of Iowa, 2011. From 1920 to 1980, British colonial authorities and post-colonial Tanzanian leaders struggled […]
Dans la province du Nord Kivu, dans l’est de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC), les rumeurs et les spéculations concernant le retour anticipé des réfugiés congolais (tutsis) du Rwanda sont monnaie courante, en particulier depuis la signature de l’accord […]
Refugees and asylum seekers from Somalia and other troubled African countries seeking a new life in South Africa are bracing themselves for tighter regulations as part of planned government amendments. Several dozen Somali men and women mill around the offices […]
By: WERNER MENGES NAMIBIAN citizens by birth can hold dual citizenship. This is the effect of an order that was given in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday. The Namibian Citizenship Act’s section 26, which states that no Namibian citizen […]
Le Roux v The Minister of Home Affairs and Immigration and Others (A 322/2010) [2011] NAHC 159 (6 June 2011) High Court judgment in case ordering that a person who is a Namibian citizen by birth may acquire another citizenship […]
Case number 44424/09. The High Court ordered the Dept of Home Affairs to register the birth and South African citizenship of the child of an asylum-seeker mother and a South African father. Download file: here
Extract p.23: « Frustration also has been growing among the Tebu, many of whom have resided in the country for years and consider themselves fully Libyan yet are not treated accordingly. In December 2007, for example, in a bid to deter […]