C’est souvent en période électorale que les questions autour de la nationalité se retrouvent au premier plan – lorsque le sens de la nationalité est contesté dans son sens le plus large de droit à participer aux affaires publiques d’un pays. Il existe de nombreux cas bien connus de politiciens dont le droit à la nationalité du pays dans lequel ils souhaitent briguer un mandat a été remis en question. Certains de ces cas ont fait l’objet de débats jusqu’au niveau de la Commission Africaine des Droits de l’homme et des peuples, mais des cas moins connus surviennent dans presque toutes les élections. Lors des élections, on voit aussi régulièrement surgir des affirmations selon lesquelles certains groupes d’électeurs potentiels ont été inscrits pour voter, alors même qu’ils n’ont pas la nationalité.
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 […]
The National Rescue Movement (NRM) has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to disqualify the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25, 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi over his alleged possession of dual citizenship of […]
Author: Urias Teh Pour Executive Director, Independent National Commission on Human Rights (INCHR), Liberia For the first time in the political history of Liberia, Liberians in the diaspora are making a strong case for their inclusion in the 2023 general […]
By Ayang Macdonald Ashu M. just clocked 20 years this November, the legal age for voting in the central African nation of Cameroon. The enthusiastic young man is looking forward to enlisting his name on the biometric voter roll in […]
Par Idrissa Keita En prélude aux élections générales, Nouakchott a évacué les questions portant sur les pièces administratives et le fichier lors de la réunion hebdomadaire du gouvernement. Le conseil des ministres mauritanien a tranché la question du sésame national. […]
Le gouvernement comorien veut empêcher les binationaux, notamment les citoyens qui sont également français, de se présenter à l’élection présidentielle de 2024, selon un projet de loi actuellement examiné au Parlement dont l’AFP a obtenu copie. « Si un candidat est […]
By Paul Kurgat Kenya Kwanza allies want outgoing Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i to be compelled to pay the exiled lawyer, Miguna Miguna, Ksh7 million as ordered by the court. Lawyer Nelson Havi led the clamour, arguing that the High […]
By Fred Kagonye | Sep 20, 2022 Lawyer Dr Miguna Miguna has taken to Twitter to reveal that he has received a new passport, five years since he was ‘deported’ from Kenya to Canada. In a tweet, Miguna stated that […]
Says ALCOD’s Eminent Chairman Emmanuel S. Wettee The Eminent Chairman of the All-Liberian Conference on Dual Citizenship (ALCOD), Eminent Emmanuel S. Wettee, has come up to provide clarity on the new Dual Citizenship Law, saying it does not make natural-born […]
By MAUREEN NJERI The Shona will participate in their first ever General Election n Kenya nearly six decades after the community migrated from Zimbabwe. Speaking to BBC Africa, the community secretary general Oliver Muregerera was excited to finally exercise his civil […]
By Cholo Brooks At long last, Liberia, Africa’s oldest Republic has finally allowed any person who is a negro or of negro descent, born in Liberia and a person born outside of the country, “whose father and mother were either […]