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Plus de 1500 enfants déplacés reçoivent un certificat de naissance au Nigéria

Published: 31/Août/2021
Source: UNHCR

Le Nigéria intensifie l’enregistrement des naissances des enfants risquant d’être apatrides et qui vivent dans des camps de déplacés internes. Par Gabriel Adeyemo a Abuja, Nigeria Au cours des sept dernières années, Liyatu Ayuba, 50 ans, une accoucheuse traditionnelle, a […]

Zimbabwe: Recoding of ‘00’ IDs underway

Published: 27/Août/2021
Source: The Herald (Harare)

In a historic move expected to end racial profiling, Government yesterday abolished the “00” code used to identify persons of mixed race, Caucasians and Asians on national identity cards. Presenting a ministerial statement in the National Assembly yesterday, Home Affairs […]

Uganda: Banyarwanda community, immigration war over passports deepens

Published: 26/Août/2021
Source: News Editor (Kampala)

BY KETRAH JJEMBA, KAMPALA A RIFT between Banyarwanda, a community of Rwandan origin living in Uganda and the immigration offices at the Ministry of internal Affairs over passport  issuance has deepened. Their war has now reached High Court in Kampala […]

Limiting presidential eligibility could drive deep divides in the DRC

Published: 24/Août/2021
Source: Institute for Security Studies (South Africa)

The proposed Congolité law could inflame violence in a country devastated by more than two decades of conflict. by David Zounmenou Early in July, Noel Tshiani, a 2018 presidential candidate with the support of some Members of Parliament, proposed amending […]

Zimbabwe: Children of Gukurahundi Victims Struggle to Access IDs

Published: 24/Août/2021
Source: New Zimbabwe

By Kenneth Matimaire Children born to victims of Gukurahundi massacres have been deprived of their right to access birth registration leading to dire human rights violations associated with statelessness, a new study has shown. The findings featured in a study […]

Que dit la loi congolaise à propos de l’apatridie ?

Published: 24/Août/2021
Source: Radio OKAPI

Près de 10 millions de personnes dans le monde vivent sans aucune nationalité. Aucun État ne les considère comme ses ressortissants. Ça s’appelle apatridie. La RDC héberge aussi des apatrides, selon le comité interinstitutionnel de lutte contre apatridie en RDC. […]

Kenya: We lived like ghosts before we got IDs — Shona community members

Published: 23/Août/2021
Source: The Star (Nairobi)

by AKELLO ODENYO and CHRISTINE NTINYARI “We were alive and dead at the same time, like ghosts, because we had no identity.” Those were the words of Zephaniah Muungani, a member of the Shona community living in Kenya. “Generation after […]

Survivors of 1921 US race massacre accept Ghanaian citizenship

Published: 21/Août/2021
Source: Ghana News Agency

Two American siblings who survived a well documented massacre of Black people in the US city of Tulsa in Oklahoma have rounded up a visit to Ghana by accepting to be citizens of Ghana. 107-year-old Viola Fletcher and her brother, […]