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Who Loses When a Country Puts Citizenship Up for Sale?

Published: 5/Jan/2018
Source: New York Times

By ATOSSA ARAXIA ABRAHAMIAN Comoro Islands is a tiny East African country with stunning white beaches, a large active volcano and a population just shy of 800,000. Some 150,000 Comorans live in metropolitan France, which governed the Comoros until 1975. […]

Cash for citizenship: rich Arab countries may pay poor islands to take ‘stateless’ Bidoons

Published: 15/Nov/2016
Source: Overseas Development Institute

Earlier this year the Comoros Islands, a small archipelago off the coast of Mozambique, expressed interest in entering talks with the Kuwaiti government. The subject? A deal that would grant Comorian citizenship to the stateless Bidoon population of Kuwait and the […]

Comoros: The bizarre scheme to transform a remote island into the new Dubai

Published: 11/Nov/2015
Source: The Guardian (London)

By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian On October 8, 2008, a group of government officials from the Comoro Islands made their way from their villages to a small airport not far from the nation’s capital, where, on a runway overlooking the Indian […]

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Who Loses When a Country Puts Citizenship Up for Sale?

Published: 5/Jan/2018
Source: New York Times

Cash for citizenship: rich Arab countries may pay poor islands to take ‘stateless’ Bidoons

Published: 15/Nov/2016
Source: Overseas Development Institute

Comoros: The bizarre scheme to transform a remote island into the new Dubai

Published: 11/Nov/2015
Source: The Guardian (London)

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Tag Archive: bidoon

Who Loses When a Country Puts Citizenship Up for Sale?

Published: 5/Jan/2018 Source: New York Times

Cash for citizenship: rich Arab countries may pay poor islands to take ‘stateless’ Bidoons

Published: 15/Nov/2016 Source: Overseas Development Institute

Comoros: The bizarre scheme to transform a remote island into the new Dubai

Published: 11/Nov/2015 Source: The Guardian (London)

Published: 5/Jan/2018
Source: New York Times

Published: 15/Nov/2016
Source: Overseas Development Institute

Published: 11/Nov/2015
Source: The Guardian (London)