By Kamau Muthoni Two experts have poured cold water on the Kenya Kwanza digital identification card project. Prof Laura Bingham, an international law expert, and Dr Thomas Fisher, a senior researcher at Privacy International in the UK, yesterday raised questions […]
Question NO44 to the Minister of Home Affairs Mogale, Mr T to ask the Minister of Home Affairs (1) Whether Elon Musk, Deon Barnard, Peter Andreas Thiel and David Oliver Sacks are South African citizens; if not, what is the […]
Constitutional Court Ruling on Identity System Affects Tens of Thousands The High Court in Garissa, Kenya ruled on January 21 in favor of thousands of ethnic Somali Kenyan nationals whose rights were violated by the refusal to deregister them from the refugee […]
By Emmanuel Akinwofu ASEBU, Ghana — Nestled in the sleepy town of Asebu, a few miles inland from the Atlantic along Ghana’s Cape Coast, lies a serene 5,000 acre rural settlement. A mud road at the entrance weaves through a […]
By Lucy Mumbi Family tree verification, electronic biometric capture and school-based registration are among the three new measures that will be used during the vetting of national identification card applicants in North Eastern to enhance transparency, efficiency, and national security. […]
By Moraa Obiria Tanzanian widows in Taita Taveta County, remain in limbo without IDs, largely due to a lack of awareness about the citizenship acquisition process. Village elders are attempting to spread information through word-of-mouth, but without proper funding and […]
18 February 2024 marked a historic day for the African continent with the adoption at the 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union of the Protocol to the African Charter on […]
Investigators from the Department of Home Affairs, assisted by the South African Police Service (SAPS), this morning detained Ms Anabela Rungo, the mother of Ms Chidimma Adetshina, at a property in Cape Town. The Department withdrew Ms Rungo’s South African […]
By: Binta Jaiteh Omar T. Camara, the Acting Commissioner & Government Focal Point at the Gambia Commission for Refugees, has revealed that a total of two hundred and forty-seven (247) Ghanaians living at Brufut/ Ghana Town hold valid or expired […]
By: Jankey Touray The Gambia Refugees Commission under the Gambia Immigration Department (GID) yesterday informed the National Assembly Select Committee on Health, Disaster, Humanitarian Relief and Refugees that Ghana Town residents faced significant risks of barrier to obtaining citizenship due […]
By Robin Lee Francke The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have come out guns blazing after the executive order by US President Donald Trump sent shockwaves around the globe, saying any Afrikaner who accepted the offer should have their citizenship revoked. […]
It will now be easier for the residents of Northern Kenya to acquire national identification documents after President William Ruto signed a decree ending years of State discrimination in the issuance of the vital documents. Signing the Presidential Proclamation on […]