Angèle Dikongué-Atangana talks about the ongoing partnership between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to improve the protection of the rights of asylum-seekers, refugees and those at risk of statelessness in West Afr...

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...

Abidjan, 02 fév (AIP) – L’Agence des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés en Côte d’Ivoire en collaboration avec l’organisation « Social Change Factory » organisera, vendredi, une compétition internationale sur l’apatridie, au siège de la Banque Africaine de Développement (BAD) à Abidjan. Les compétiteu...

L'apatridie désigne l'état d'une personne qui n’a ni patrie ni nationalité. Causes de l'apatridie en Afrique de l'Ouest « L’apatridie survient à la naissance, et même plus tard, dans la vie, pour des raisons techniques, administratives et politiques, en Afrique de l’Ouest où nous avons sillon...

Par Emmanuelle Bastide Diffusion : lundi 6 février 2017 7 milliards de voisins est à Abidjan ! Cette émission enregistrée à la BAD (Banque africaine de développement), en partenariat avec la compétition citoyenne Voix des Jeunes. 2 ans exactement après la Conférence d’Abidjan, où plusieurs pay...

The West-African nation of Guinea Bissau became the 10th State to have acceded to one or both of the Statelessness Conventions since the launch of UNHCR’s ‘#IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness by 2024’ two years ago. This marks an important step towards the eradication of statelessness and strengt...

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, ...

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...

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 20,000 people in West Africa have gained identity documents in the past year as part of a drive to eradicate statelessness, yet around one million in the region still have no nationality, the United Nations said on Thursday. Stateless people, sometim...