Entered into force August 2015. An Act to provide for the registration of persons and registration of births, marriages and deaths of persons and to provide for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto. Section 3 (1) There shall be a […]
A row over Ivory Coast’s voter register has thrust the issue of Ivorian nationality to the fore, exposing festering disputes that still fuel tensions years after they first tipped the country into war. President Laurent Gbagbo’s ruling party this week […]
Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s adviser on grand coalition matters has denied claims that he renounced his Kenyan citizenship. Mr Miguna Miguna said he was a Kenyan by birth and that he had never changed citizenship. He was reacting to a […]
By Muthoni Wanyeki Imagine this. You are a woman born and brought up in Kenya. Kenya is the only home you have ever known. You believe yourself to be Kenyan. But, when you apply for your passport, you have to […]
Au Niger, les règles régissant l’acquisition et la perte de la Nationalité sont fixées par : l’ordonnance n°84-33 du 23 août 1984 portant code de la Nationalité Nigérienne modifiée par l’ordonnance n°88-13 du 18 février 1988, Et l’ordonnance n°99-17 du […]
Edited by Astrid Evrensel Voter Registration in Africa: A Comparative Analysis offers a comprehensive introduction to the single most complex process within the electoral cycle. It critically analyses the efficacy and sustainability of different voter registration systems across the African […]
Those of us possessing an identity card can imagine how things would be without one. Those of us who don’t possess one don’t need to imagine. We know. We know we can’t vote, can’t be heard, and certainly can’t run […]
For millions of refugees across the world home is a distant memory. It is a place they have had to flee to escape violence and persecution. Most dream of going home, others hope for resettlement and some are able to […]
When you talk or hear about aliens you imagine uninvited, scary creatures from outer space, foreign, totally strange things that are not human, they do not look like you, well, at least physically. They do not speak the same language […]
La loi 61 112 du 2 juin 1961 privait, automatiquement, de sa nationalité, tout mauritanien titulaire par naturalisation d’une nationalité étrangère. L’assemblée nationale mauritanienne, réuni en plénière vendredi 25 décembre, a abrogé la disposition rendant impossible la double nationalité. L’article […]
Afin de permettre aux populations pauvres de jouir de leurs droits civiques et dans le cadre de la préparation de l’électorat pour 2010, le Ministre de l’Intérieur, M. Edouard Nduwimana, en présence du Représentant Exécutif du Secrétaire Général des Nations […]
Amnesty International has welcomed the news that Aminatou Haidar, a Sahrawi human rights activist who has spent the past month on hunger strike in Lanzarote airport, has returned home and been reunited with her children. Aminatou Haidar said that she […]