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South Africa: Home Affairs Committee request for report on statelessness

Published: 9/Mar/2021
Source: South African Parliament: Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs

Parliament, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 – The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs has resolved to defer a decision on amendments to the Electoral Laws Amendment Bill (B22-2020) proposed by the National Council of Provinces to Friday, 12 March 2021, to enable […]

Report on citizenship law : Eswatini

Published: 5/Mar/2021
Source: GLOBALCIT, European University Institute

By Sabelo Gumedze This report will firstly present a historical backdrop on citizenship law postindependence. This is largely provided for in the Swaziland Independence Constitution. This history also includes the blatant violation of citizenship law by the government of Swaziland […]

Who Are Kenya’s 42+ ‘Tribes’? and Should We Be Asking?

Published: 5/Mar/2021
Source: The Elephant (Nairobi)

Asking whether or not the census should continue to count ethnic groups is one way into the difficult conversation about how to reckon with the legacies of colonial weaponisation of ethnicity. By Samantha Balaton-Chrimes It was a hot and dusty […]

Côte d’Ivoire: Déclaration conjointe à l’occasion du 6ème anniversaire de la Déclaration d’Abidjan des ministres des Etats membres de la CEDEAO sur l’éradication de l’Apatridie d’ici 2024

Published: 25/Fév/2021
Source: Ministere de la Justice, Cote d'Ivoire & HCR

Aux termes de l’article 1er de la convention de 1954 relative au statut des apatrides, l’apatride est “une personne qu’aucun Etat ne considère comme son ressortissant par application de sa législation”. Au-delà de cette définition assez restrictive, les rédacteurs du […]

Côte d’Ivoire: identifier et protéger les apatrides

Published: 24/Fév/2021
Source: RFI

Ce sont les apatrides ou les personnes « à risque d’apatridie » : ils n’ont pas de nationalité ou ont beaucoup de mal, faute de documents, à prouver cette nationalité ou un lien avec leur État d’origine. La Côte d’Ivoire […]

National ID in Lesotho is putting citizens at the center

Published: 22/Fév/2021
Source: World Bank

By Rachel Ort & Tumelo Raboletsi By putting people at the center, Lesotho’s Department of National ID and Civil Registry (NICR) in the Ministry of Home Affairs is laying a solid foundation for a simpler, more efficient government. Trusted and […]

Fort Hare professor expelled from SA over bigamous marriage

Published: 22/Fév/2021
Source: Daily Dispatch (Port Elizabeth) / Timeslive.co.za

By Ray Hartle Edwin Okey Chikata Ijeoma was no intellectual slouch when he arrived in SA from Nigeria on a study permit in 1998 to pursue academic studies at the University of Pretoria. His hard work saw him obtain a […]