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Tanzania: TCRA registered 37,297,930 SIM cards through biometric registration

Published: 24/Avr/2020
Source: The Guardian / IPPMedia (Dar es Salaam)

By Felister Peter The Tanzanian Communication Regulation Authority (TCRA) has registered 37,297,930 SIM cards through biometric registration system. So far the National Identification Authority (NIDA) had issued 21,823,026 national identification numbers until March this year. The authority issued NIN to […]

UNHCR Campaign to End Statelessness Update Jan – Mar 2020

Published: 22/Avr/2020
Source: UNHCR

Extracts: Mobilizing governments and civil society From 2 to 5 March, in Rubavu, Rwanda, UNHCR and the newly established Government Taskforce on Statelessness convened to discuss statelessness eradication and methodologies to identify stateless persons. In line with the pledges made […]

Kenya’s Huduma Namba: Ambition Fraught with Risk

Published: 22/Avr/2020
Source: Ikigai Law (New Delhi)

Digital identity programs in jurisdictions with weak privacy regulations face the risk of commodification, breach and misuse. This risk is exacerbated when governments link digital identity with citizenship, voting rights, public services, and employment. This piece discusses Kenya’s digital identity […]

Report on citizenship law : Ethiopia

Published: 17/Avr/2020
Source: GlobalCit

By Zecharias Fasil This report discusses citizenship in Ethiopia. It explores the history of citizenship in this country, modes of acquisition and loss, and current debates and reform plans regarding citizenship policy. Download: https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/66827

Morocco and South Africa renew war of words over Western Sahara

Published: 15/Avr/2020
Source: Daily Maverick (South Africa)

by Peter Fabricius Pretoria is not happy with a Moroccan article condemning its ‘sclerotic, ideological position’ on what it calls ‘the last colony on the African continent’. A new spat has erupted between South Africa and Morocco in their long-running […]

Chisuse and Others versus Department of Home Affairs (CC:155/19)

Published: 14/Avr/2020
Source: GlobalCit

By Christine Hobden (University of Fort Hare), GLOBALCIT collaborator. In June 2019, a South African Non-Profit Organisation, Lawyers for Human Rights, applied to the South African Constitutional Court for confirmation of a High Court order declaring unconstitutional the provisions of […]

South Africa and Zimbabwe should recognise border citizens

Published: 13/Avr/2020
Source: Bulawayo24

An article in the Journal of Borderlands Studies written by Inocent Moyo argues that the South African and Zimbabwean governments may learn from progressive examples and recognise border citizens. « If this does not succeed, it will mean that citizenship and sovereignty which […]

In Kenya, thousands face an uncertain future without ID cards

Published: 13/Avr/2020
Source: CodaStory.com

By Keren Weitzberg A government program for citizens and refugees highlights the pitfalls of humanitarian biometrics Amina Ali Adan was born in the Kenyan town of Garissa, 65 miles away from Dadaab, one of the world’s largest refugee camps, situated […]