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Parliament to investigate Zimbabwe's stateless crisis
Parliament in Zimbabwe has initiated an investigation into the issue of undocumented individuals in the country following criticism from Amnesty International. Amnesty International raised con...Published: 25 Jun 2024 at 10:47hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
SADC countries to link digital fingerprint system with population registers?
The Gauteng government and regional bloc SADC [Southern African Development Community] representatives have agreed to link immigrants to the Digital Fingerprint System so that undocumented migrants ca...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 14:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
US Afghanistan spies enter Zimbabwe to fight for asylum in South Africa
THE group of 22 Afghan nationals, who worked closely with United States military and security agencies after the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack on Americ...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Most stateless people are in Matabeleland due to Gukurahundi
MATABELELAND REGION is the one that is currently having the largest population who are stateless due to Gukurahundi.This was reve...Published: 01 May 2022 at 12:01hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
IDs are a basic right
REPORTS yesterday said the Registrar-General's office would from Monday resume issuing birth certificates, passports and identity documents (IDs) after months of closure due to COVID-19 lockdowns....Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:41hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Children of illegal migrants face statelessness
THERE is a growing population of stateless children born to illegal Zimbabwean immigrants in foreign countries, new study reveals.The study, titled Cursed with Statelessness: Consequences of D...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Shona community in Kenya to get citizenship
The ethnic Shona community in Kenya, descendants from people who emigrated in the 1930s, and then in the 1960s as missionaries, will soon finally get certificates of citizenship following the decision...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 14:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
We are like 'stray animals'
According to the United nations High commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), the exact number of stateless people globally is not known.However, the Un refugee Agency estimates that there are many ...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:17hrs | 1 | by Amnesty International
Thousands denied citizenship in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's discriminatory citizenship laws have rendered thousands of people stateless and pushed them to the fringes of society, depriving them of access to education, healthcare, and housing, Amnest...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:39hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
On Decolonising Governmentality
It is a truly careless but also stubborn truism that if we had no nation-states in the world we would not have nationless and stateless people. Nations and states are the source of nationlessness and ...Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:57hrs | 1 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
4000 Shonas seek citizenship in Kenya
At least 4000 people of Shona origin living in Kenya have launched a bid to attain citizenship after their families have been residing in Kenya for close to 60 years and yet they have remained undocum...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 20:53hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
An inherited crisis of imagination: A Long Essay concerning the understanding of Zimbabwe - Pt2
Continuing from here...Truth be said, this is a great opportunity for Mnangagwa. And truth be repeated, the...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:03hrs | | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
The Matebelaland Genocide now a hot potato and set to consume perpetrators
On the 20th March 2017 the ANN7 Africa News Network interviewed Ayanda Manala the International Human Rights Activist and Yanga Mhluzi the PR for Siphesakhe Youth Organisation in a special programme f...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Thulani Nkala
Africa most affected by refugee crisis - Ethiopia and Uganda praised for open-door policy
As Germany, France and other European countries contend with an unprecedented influx of refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, shocking tales of women and children drowning in the Medit...Published: 17 Dec 2016 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Sulaiman Momodu
Massive Gukurahundi demonstrations
This is to announce that Siphesakhe Youth Organisation will be embarking on a public demonstration against Zimbabwean Government's Gukurahundi Genocide against the people of Matebeleland and Midlands ...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 20:13hrs | 2 | by Yanga Mhluzi (Member of Siphesakhe Youth Group)
SA deportee stateless after Zimbabwe snub
A MAN who was deported from South Africa for allegedly violating the neighbouring country's immigration laws has found himself in a quandary after he was also declared an illegal immigrant in Zimbabwe...Published: 21 Jun 2016 at 09:31hrs | 1 | by Mashudu Netsianda
MLF leader steps down
MTHWAKAZI LIBERATION FRONT (M.L.F.) IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT TO ALL MEMBERS, PARTNERS AND WELL WISHERS. We deeply regret to...Published: 11 Mar 2016 at 11:25hrs | 3 | by Dr Guduza and A Sibanda
Stateless Shona still trapped in Kenya's shadows
IN A village on the outskirts of Kenya's capital Nairobi, 53-year-old Margaret Maposa embroiders seat covers for a customer, sitting with her niece Elizabeth Moyo, who is weaving a multi-coloured bask...Published: 30 May 2015 at 16:57hrs | | by Thomson Reuters Foundation
Refugees turn to Ethiopia for safety and asylum
Country now hosts the largest number of refugees in AfricaAs a 17-year-old boy, James Gaw Tot fled war in South Sudan to the safety of Ethiopia. Little...Published: 07 May 2015 at 06:46hrs | 2 | by Sulaiman Momodu
Refugees turn to Ethiopia for safety and asylum, Country now hosts the largest number of refugees in Africa
As a 17-year-old boy, James Gaw Tot fled war in South Sudan to the safety of Ethiopia. Little did he know he would call this country his home for the next 23 years. Today, still a refugee...Published: 06 May 2015 at 09:10hrs | 1 | by Sulaiman Momodu
Children should inherit mother's nationality
Governments should formulate laws that allow children to inherit their nationality from their mothers, says Millicent Mutuli, the local United Nations High Commission for Refugees representative....Published: 05 Dec 2014 at 10:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Living the South African dream on borrowed time
MUSINA, South Africa, October 10 (UNHCR) – At a glance, Jabulani Sibanda is living the South African dream. At 31, he is married with two beautiful children, and has a car, a house ...Published: 11 Oct 2011 at 13:41hrs | 1 | by Pumla Rulashe in Musina, South Africa
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