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  • Deputy UN chief highlights stronger AU-UN partnership to benefit Africa's youth

    news UN News Centre, 03 Jul 2017 (6 years ago )
    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 ...
  • Statelessness: Over 40m children are unregistered in West Africa —UNICEF

    news Nigerian Tribune, 11 May 2017 (6 years ago )
    Ms Marie-Pierre Poirier, Regional Director, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), says about 40 million children under five are unregistered in the West African region Poirier made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Banjul at the end of the Ministerial...
  • West Africa acts to end statelessness

    news Namibian, 10 May 2017 (6 years ago )
    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 ...
  • La Cedeao adopte un plan d’action pour éradiquer l’apatridie

    news Jeune Afrique, 10 May 2017 (6 years ago )
    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. ...
  • ECOWAS works towards eradicating statelessness in west Africa

    news Africanews, 10 May 2017 (6 years ago )
    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...
  • Apatridie : l’Afrique de l’Ouest adopte un plan d’éradication du phénomène

    news Agence d'information d'afrique centrale, 10 May 2017 (6 years ago )
    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...
  • La CEDEAO contre l'apatridie

    news BBC, 10 May 2017 (6 years ago )
    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...
  • Apatridie: l'Afrique de l'Ouest première région à adopter un plan d'éradication

    news Afrique Expansion, 10 May 2017 (6 years ago )
    La Communauté économique des Etats d'Afrique de l'Ouest (Cédéao) est devenue officiellement mardi la première organisation régionale à adopter un plan d'élimination de l'apatridie, lors d'une conférence ministérielle à Banjul, la capitale gambienne. Le Haut commissariat de l'ONU pour les réfugiés...
  • West Africa Approves World’s First Action Plan to End Statelessness

    news News Deeply, 09 May 2017 (6 years ago )
    Officials from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), along with the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR), have adopted the world’s first action plan to eradicate statelessness. Stateless people do not have citizenship in any country and often do not have access to work, education or heal...
  • ECOWAS experts finalise strategies to eradicate statelessness

    news The point, 08 May 2017 (6 years ago )
    Experts from within West Africa and outside are meeting in The Gambia to review a draft 8-year Plan of Action which set forth concrete measures to end statelessness in the sub-region by the year 2024. The Plan of Action is developed in line with the Abidjan Declaration adopted by the 15 ECOWAS me...