By Anna Chibamu ALL citizens who paid $53 to get an ordinary passport before the fees were raised to $253, are expected to pay the difference of $200 before their travel documents are processed. This was announced Thursday by the […]
A case brought before court on behalf of a group of stateless people, claiming that they lost their South African citizenship by descent when the law was changed, has revealed absolute chaos at the Department of Home Affairs, which had […]
Une session de formation sur le Plan national d’action pour l’élimination de l’apatridie en Côte d’Ivoire (PNAEA-CI) et la loi instituant une procédure spéciale de déclaration de naissance, de rétablissement d’identité et de transcription d’acte de naissance, s’est tenue le […]
by Roxane Bayer THE Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration is investigating 70 cases of sham marriages between Namibians and foreign nationals. During a media briefing in Windhoek yesterday, the deputy minister of home affairs and immigration, Maureen Hinda-Mbuende, revealed […]
HARARE, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) — Zimbabwe is battling to clear a backlog of more than 400,000 passports dating as far back as 2018 due to shortage of foreign currency to import required consumables, Registrar-General Clemence Masango said Thursday. He told […]
Case Number: CCT155/19 Hearing Date: 13 February 2020 [judgment reserved] MEDIA SUMMARY The following explanatory note is provided to assist the media in reporting this case and is not binding on the Constitutional Court or any member of the Court. […]
Ethiopia’s electoral agency asked immigration authorities to establish the citizenship of a prominent critic of the Horn of Africa government’s leadership, just months before national elections. Jawar Mohammed, a member of the Oromo Federalist Congress, gave up his U.S. citizenship […]
Aidan Eyakuze & Khalifa Said Development, volume 63, pages 95–99 (2020) The article explores the weaponization of identity and citizenship in Tanzania that is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It illustrates the types of discriminations that a citizen can face for not […]
The short answer Applying for birth certificates can be complicated. You may need help. The whole question I am a Zimbabwean lady with three children with a South African man. We are not married. How can we apply for birth […]
En tenant cette première sortie de l’année 2020 à Fada N’Gourma (chef-lieu de la région de l’Est), les responsables de l’ONI font un clin d’œil aux zones touchées par l’insécurité. Pour le directeur général de l’ONI, en quittant la capitale […]
By Moses Walubiri The mooted amendment is tailored to adding the Maragoli to the 56 officially recognized indigenous Ugandan communities. KAMPALA – After years of living in the shadows of a country they have known as their home, Parliament has […]
By Leonard Mwakalebela in Dodoma THE Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security has asked the government to scrutinize thoroughly refugees’ background before granting them citizenship status. Presenting its annual report on Wednesday, the committee cautioned that there were […]