Now an Ivorian citizen, the 59-year-old man finally feels he belongs to a nation Hundreds of thousands of persons are stateless or at risk of statelessness in Côte d’Ivoire. This population includes around 400,000 historical migrants, mainly from Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea, and their descendan...

Achievements were presented at the consultative conference in Abidjan ABIDJAN, CÔTE D’IVOIRE, 2 October 2015 (UNHCR) – The consultative conference on citizenship and statelessness in West Africa ended this week after two days of fruitful exchanges in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, on 28-30 September. Th...

The House of Representatives is reviewing the option to allot funds for the production and release of national identification (ID) cards for all Liberians. The House’s Committees on State Enterprise, Judiciary and Ways, Means, Finance and Development Planning have been tasked with seeking expert ...

Hon. Sani Zorro, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) has disclosed Nigeria’s government plan to issue United Nations passport to people at risk of being stateless. Zorro made this known during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Sat...

Senegalese rap group Bideew Bou Bess is calling attention to the plight of those who are stateless with their new song “I belong.” According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), there are over 10 million people around the world who have fled their homes and been rendered stateless or wit...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has a adopted strategies to eradicate statelessness in the sub-region by 2024. During a 3-day ministerial conference that began on Monday in Gambia’s capital Banjul, experts from the bloc’s 15 member states resolved to finalize a plan of acti...

La communauté économique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO) a adopté officiellement le mardi 9 mai, lors d’une conférence ministérielle à Banjul, en Gambie, un plan d’élimination du phénomène de privation de nationalité, appelé apatride. « L’Afrique de l’Ouest se pose en leader de la...

Participants at the just ended National Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability conference in Accra have lauded Ghana’s automated birth registration programme, an initiative between Tigo, UNICEF and the Ghana Births and Deaths Registry. Making a presentation to conference participants drawn f...

Le Ministère de la Justice, Carde des Sceaux en collaboration avec le Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les Refugiés a organisé vendredi dernier à l’Hôtel El Farouk de Bamako, une cérémonie de validation du plan d’action national de lutte contre l’apatridie au Mali. La rencontre a été pré...

L’humoriste-chanteur ivoirien, Jacques Silver Bah alias « Magnific» a été fait sympathisant du Haut-commissariat des Nations-Unies pour les réfugiés ( HCR) samedi soir au Palais de la culture d’Abidjan en marge de son « One-man-show » intitulé « Amour risqué ». Avec cette distinction qui fai...