By Petra Marais and Charlene Kreuser While SA navigates through the pandemic, the Department of Home Affairs has opened and closed the doors to some of its services, citing the protection of its staff’s health. In the legal sense, citizenship […]
By Franklin Draku The government has planned to phase out the current national identity cards by 2024 and replace them with electronic ones. The announcement was made during the handover of office to the new executive director of National Identification […]
By Zelda Venter Pretoria – A Nigerian citizen will have to return to his country of birth after South African authorities revoked his citizenship nearly a decade after it was granted. This was based on allegations that he had illegally […]
WASHINGTON, May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — AfricanAncestry.com, the Black-owned pioneers of genetic ancestry tracing for people of African descent, today announced an unprecedented partnership with the Sierra Leone government through the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Affairs and its facilitating […]
National identity documents like an ID card are what enable people to enroll in school, access government healthcare, and vote. Under the Kenyan Constitution, every citizen has the right to these documents, yet over five million people face discrimination when […]
Bronwen Manby, ‘Naturalization in African states: its past and potential future’, Citizenship Studies, 25:4, 514-542, DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2021.1926098 The existing literature on the grant of citizenship by naturalization largely focuses on the experience of Europe and the immigrant-founded states of the […]
Parliament has rejected a proposal by its Human Rights Committee seeking to grant refugees children born in Uganda citizenship. This followed a recommendation voiced by Agnes Taaka Wejuli, the Committee’s chairperson while tabling a committee report on Monday May 10, […]
Translation by Google Translate. Written by: Ali Abdel Gawad The Supreme Constitutional Court, headed by Counselor Said Marei, ruled that the case referred by the Administrative Court to request a ruling on the constitutionality of the text of the second […]
Chris de Beer-Procter It’s a sunny morning in Johannesburg and a cautiously optimistic yet tense Phillip Lühl is eating breakfast at a table in a relative’s home. “The waiting is the worst,” he says, barely lifting his eyes from his […]
By Joseph Ndunda The Nubian Rights Forum (NRF) has accused the government of discriminating against the community and deliberate failure to issue national identity cards to its youth. NRF executive director Shafi Ali Hussein further claims some officers at the […]
«L’acte de naissance est le premier document dans la vie d’un individu et le plus important car il le suit durant toute sa vie. C’est ce document qui lui confère la personnalité juridique à un individu». Dr Hervé Moby, le Maire […]
By Nanjala Nyabola The move toward digitizing identity and biometrics will only make existing systemic bias harder to crack. The future of travel is up in the air. As countries and companies attempt to define what safety looks like in […]