La Charte stipule qu’« Un étranger légalement admis sur le territoire d’un Etat partie à la présente Charte ne pourra en être expulsé qu’en vertu d’une décision prise conformément à la loi» (Article 12(4)). En outre, le droit international des réfugiés interdit le rapatriement des personnes ayant besoin de protection, ce qui crée pour l’Etat une obligation corollaire de donner la possibilité de faire valoir une crainte de persécution et de contester l’expulsion.
Il y a eu plusieurs cas très médiatisés de personnalités critiques du gouvernement qui étaient expulsées pour tenter de les faire taire. L’un des cas les plus médiatisés a été celui de John Modise, qui a passé des années dans le homeland du Bophuthatswana en Afrique du Sud, ou piégé à la frontière entre le Botswana et l’Afrique du Sud, parce que le gouvernement du Botswana refusait de reconnaître sa nationalité. La Commission africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples a conclu que le Botswana violait plusieurs articles de la Charte africaine.
By BOB KARASHANI The African Court on Human and Peoples Rights on Thursday ordered the Tanzanian government to pay a former NGO director $99,500 for illegally expelling him from the country in 2014. The court, sitting in Dar es Salaam, […]
Judgment Summary ANUDO OCHIENG ANUDO v. UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA APPLICATION NO. 012/2015 JUDGMENT ON REPARATIONS Dar es Salaam, 2 December 2021: The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Court) delivered its judgment on reparations in the case […]
By IVAN R. MUGISHA Rwanda has protested the increased cases of deportation and torture of Banyarwanda from Uganda. Kigali alleges that some Kinyarwanda speakers, former military officers, business people and students are being held incommunicado by Ugandan intelligence. The Rwandan […]
Kenya’s high court has directed that the deported lawyer, Miguna Miguna be allowed back into the country to face his accuser in person. The court through its judge Justice Chacha Mwita said Miguna must physically be present in court on […]
By Deus Ngowi Arusha — THE African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR) has ordered Government of Tanzania to amend its legislation to provide individuals with judicial remedies in the event of any dispute over their citizenship. The Court […]
NEW YORK—The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has taken a significant step to strengthen the right to nationality, in a case brought by a Tanzanian man who found himself forced to live in the no-man’s land between […]
By Paul Ogemba and Faith Karanja Opposition politician Miguna Miguna is free to return to Kenya after the High Court quashed Government decision to strip him of his citizenship. As soon as the judgement was delivered, Miguna stated he would […]
By Mashudu Netsianda THE South African government has denied that it deported Mr Daniel Desire Mncube to Zimbabwe. Mr Mncube (46) claims he was flushed out of South Africa for allegedly violating the neighbouring country’s immigration laws. He found himself […]
Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian-Egyptian journalist and former manager of Al-Jazeera International in Cairo, regained his Egyptian nationality after his request for citizenship was approved by the interior minister on Wednesday, according to the state’s official gazette. Fahmy, who held dual […]
The East African Court of Justice (EACJ) recently held that the East African Community (EAC) breached its duties to effectively investigate and redress possible violations of the principles in the EAC Treaty that arose from the allegedly illegal expulsion of […]
Seated on a fragile-looking plastic chair, metres away from where a handful young men treated themselves to cold bottles of beer and spicy, peppered meat enticingly heaped on a ceramic plate, LA, as he is fondly known around his Shitta, […]
The Federal Government on Thursday warned Gabon and other West African countries to henceforth stop the dumping of deportees in Nigeria. The Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. Abdurrahman Dambazzau (retd.), who gave the warning in Calabar, Cross River State, said […]