L'Organisation sous régionale a ébauché un plan visant à permettre aux milliers de personnes sans papiers et sans nationalité reconnue de pouvoir exister officiellement. Selon un spécialiste, en Afrique de l'Ouest, l'apatridie, due à une législation restrictive en matière de transmission de nationa...

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...

3 July 2017 – Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed today called for strengthening the relationship between the African Union (AU) and the United Nations to deliver on promised development for Africa's youth. Addressing her first African Union Summit since taking office, Ms. Mohammed said that ...

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...

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...

The UNHCR and ECOWAS recently signed an MoU to improve the protection environment for stateless persons. Pierre is eighteen years old. He was born to Burkinabe parents in Ghana. He was not registered at birth and neither were his parents. An orphan with no nationality, Pierre is stateless. Whi...

“Identity document is important, identity document is life” To prevent former Liberian refugees in West Africa from becoming stateless, the Liberian government has been conducting re-assesment missions of those at risk of statelessness in countries where they have sought asylum. DAKAR, SENEGAL...

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, ...

An innovative new teacher training initiative was launched last week in Ghana using satellite technology to deliver lessons on teaching strategies. Train for Tomorrow aims to coach up to 5,000 teachers over two years by beaming interactive programmes into classrooms at selected hub schools. "W...

Reflections on the progress in Ghana This past May, colleagues in Ghana invited me to assess the progress in the inclusion of refugee students from Côte d’Ivoire in the Ghanaian education system. Since 2011, approximately 11,500 persons from Côte d’Ivoire have fled post-election violence to ta...