By Bronwen Manby & Solomon Momoh Nigeria is one of the few countries in the world that creates an explicitly ethnic basis for its citizenship law. The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which provides the framework for […]
By Kudzai Mubaiwa My passport is one of my most prized possessions. You can’t always get another one even if you have the money. This is the third essay in the six-part series guest edited by Nanjala Nyabola. Additional editing […]
By Martin Siele Nozisi Dube couldn’t hide her joy on Tuesday, July 28 after she was finally granted Kenyan citizenship by the Ministry of Interior. A member of the stateless Shona community which has existed in Kenya for more than […]
Joseph Rwagatare The news at the weekend was about Rwanda taking in a stateless person deported from the United States of America. The man, Amin Hassoun, a Palestinian, was reported to have been living in the United States since the […]
Magashi’s immediate younger brother from same parents, Ahamadou Harouna (aka Denis), is a lawmaker and member of the Convention Democratique et Social, one of the parties backing the incumbent President of Niger Republic, Issoufou Mahamadou. Mr Ali Mohammed Magashi, one […]
Une première réunion sur le lancement du programme conjoint « Citoyenneté et protection sociale » a eu lieu récemment au Sénat. Objectif : procéder à la validation du mécanisme de mise en œuvre dudit programme, ainsi qu’à l’examen des résultats obtenus depuis son […]
By By Mmoniemang Motsamai Gaborone — The topical Constitution (Amendment) Bill, dubbed floor crossing, is expected to take center stage during the third meeting of the first session of the 12th Parliament scheduled to commence today. […] The Citizenship (Amendment) […]
By Cholo Brooks The alleged Liberian citizenship of Augustine Ndubsi Nwabudike has finally been put to rest by the final arbiter of justice, the Supreme Court of Liberia with no hope of him retaining such, despite of his repeated entitlement […]
By Rachel Sherman In April, Coda Story’s Keren Weitzberg wrote about the biometric registration system in Kenya and the “double registered” ethnic Somali Kenyans left in limbo without ID cards. The country’s biometric system was intended to reduce incidences of […]
By Lavie Mutanganshuro The Government of Rwanda on Friday, July 24, received, on humanitarian grounds, a stateless person named Amin Hassoun who was relocated from the United States after completing a prison sentence. By definition, according to the 1954 Convention […]
By Tania Broughton Constitutional Court says that Home Affairs conduct is “brazenly incompetent”, intransigent, indifferent and inefficient Children born in other countries are entitled to South African citizenship as long as one parent is South African, the Constitutional Court has […]
Government Gazette Vol. 661 (no. 43551) The Department of Home Affairs (“DHA”) invites public comments on the draft Amendment Regulations on the South African Citizenship Act, 1995. Written submissions should reach the DHA on or before 30 August 2020. Submissions […]