It is the first time a sitting government has settled the debts, with only the last term’s (three month) yet to be cleared. The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, disclosed this in Accra yesterday when her ministry took its turn at the Meet-the-Press series. S...

DAKAR, SENEGAL, 27 October 2016 (UNHCR) – Significant progress has been made to eradicate statelessness around the world, but ongoing conflicts are putting those advances at risk. Marking the second anniversary of the global #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, ...

DAKAR – West Africa has become the first region in the world to adopt an action plan to end statelessness, aiming to help more than one million people without a nationality gain identity papers with new laws and better data, human rights experts said on Monday. Stateless people, sometimes referred ...

10 mai 2017 à 14h53 Par Jeune Afrique avec AFP La Communauté économique des Etats d’Afrique de l’Ouest (Cedeao) est devenue ce mardi la première organisation du continent à adopter un plan d‘élimination de l’apatridie, qui toucherait près d'un million de personnes sur cette partie du continent. ...

Par RFI La lutte contre l'apatridie a fait un pas de plus mardi 9 mai en Afrique de l'Ouest. Un sommet réunissait à Banjul le Haut-commissariat aux réfugiés (HCR), aussi en charge de l'apatridie, et les Etats de la Cédéao. Après la déclaration d'Abidjan en 2015, un plan d'action a été signé par le...

CONSEIL DE SÉCURITÉ 7862E SÉANCE – MATIN CS/12681 Le Représentant spécial du Secrétaire général et Chef du Bureau des Nations Unies pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest et le Sahel (UNOWAS), M. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, a salué, aujourd’hui, devant le Conseil de sécurité, la montée d’une véritable « marée d...

The government has created an online platform to connect job seekers to employment vacancies in the public and private sectors in the country. The Ghana Labour Market Information System (GLMIS), which was launched by the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Mr Ha...

The importance of school meals, parents and partnerships In Ghana, parents play a significant role in sustaining education and improving schools. School capitation grants, for example, have been reported to be too low and often late and thus parents still pay levies and fees. Parents perform an i...

THE 50th ORDINARY SUMMIT OF THE ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS) Abuja, 17 December 2016 Speech by Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) Your Excellency Madam...

By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - West Africa has become the first region in the world to adopt an action plan to end statelessness, aiming to help more than one million people without a nationality gain identity papers with new laws and better data, human rights experts said ...