Charlene Kreuser and Sabrina Ochoa (Legal Resources Centre, Cape Town) Every child has the right to a name and a nationality. This right is guaranteed not only under the Constitution, but in international law as well, and accrues to children […]
Zecharias Zelalem The rollout of digital ID Fayda in Ethiopia could entrench discrimination against Tigrayans and other ethnic minorities, rights groups fear Ethiopia introduces digital ID to improve access to services Tigrayans fear the data may be used to discriminate […]
WHEREAS the National Assembly considered public petition No. 41 of 2020 dated the 19th November, 2020, regarding the recognition of the Pemba people of Kenya as citizens of the Republic of Kenya; WHEREAS the petition posits that the Pemba Community […]
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) issued the highest number of passport booklets totalling 1,899,683 in over seven years, the Nigerian government has said. It was also learnt that at least 150 Nigerians renounced their citizenship between 2006 to 2021, while […]
MONROVIA – The National Elections Commission (NEC) has clarified that the National ID cards issued by the National Identification Registry would not be the only or primary proof of citizenship during the Biometric Voter Registration for the October elections. The […]
By Lennart Dodoo MONROVIA – There is a brewing fear among members of the public and political parties that many Liberians may be left disenfranchised should the National Elections Commission (NEC) heavily rely on the use of National ID Cards […]
By Jason Stearns Since the M23 rebellion re-emerged in November 2021, there has been a lot of noise––to call it a discussion would be to exaggerate its nuance and sophistication ––about discrimination against Congolese Tutsi and its role in the […]
L’amendement du parti de l’Istiqlal, portant sur le Code de la nationalité marocaine et liant l’octroi de cette dernière à la maîtrise des langues arabe et amazighe ou seulement l’une d’elles, est passé comme une lettre à la poste au […]
The Federal Government of Nigeria has inaugurated a High-Level Steering Committee (HLSC) for the eradication of statelessness in Nigeria and to kickstart the implementation of its five-key priority activities. The Deputy Director of Press and Public Relations, Ministry of Interior, […]
By Jesper Bjarnesen, Cristiano Lanzano, Henning Melber, and Patience Mususa Citizenship is and has always been a complicated and multi-faceted concept. Across African contexts, as a recent IDAP webinar reiterated, this complexity is both conceptual and reflective of the many and changing […]
La nouvelle exigence intervient dans le sillage d’une proposition de loi présentée par le groupe parlementaire de l’Istiqlal à la Chambre des représentants, et porte sur l’intégration aux dispositions de l’article 11 du Dahir 1.58.250 relative à l’obtention de la […]
Par Edouard Djogbénou Adopté à l’Assemblée nationale le 29 Novembre 2022, la loi N°2022-32 du 20 décembre 2022 portant code de la nationalité en République du Bénin a été promulguée par le président de la République SEM Patrice Talon. La […]