13 January 2017 – Briefing the Security Council on the situation in West Africa and the Sahel region, a senior United Nations official cited a “rising tide of democracy” throughout the continent, noting that a number of countries had recently held elections which largely complied with electoral norm...

Beaucoup de gambiens ne sont pas du tout rassurer par la situation politique dans leur pays. Le dialogue interne et la médiation de la Cedeao (Communauté économique des États de l'Afrique de l'ouest) n'ont toujours pas permis de mettre fin à la crise politique postélectorale. A l'embarcadère de B...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission wishes to congratulate the entire Community citizens on the occasion of the maiden celebration of the ECOWAS Human Rights Day. This celebration places a particular focus on the promotion and protection of women’s rights in all its ram...

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...

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...

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...

Conakry, le 24 Novembre 2016 – Sous la présidence de son Excellence Monsieur le Président de la République, le Conseil des ministres a tenu sa session ordinaire ce jeudi 24 novembre 2016 de 10h15 à 12h00, avec l'ordre du jour suivant : 1. Message de son Excellence Monsieur le Président de la ...

La Guinée et le HCR célèbrent ensemble le deuxième anniversaire de la lutte contre l’apatridie 7 novembre 2016 | Actualités | Posté par heinan conde Le Haut Commissariat des Nations-Unies pour les refugiés (UNHCR) et le gouvernement Guinéen ont procédé ce vendredi 4 novembre 2016, à la cél...

The Bank organized a two-day forum in Abidjan to explore, among other issues, how to better support countries affected by displacements of populations. ABIDJAN, CÔTE D’IVOIRE, 12 January 2017 (UNHCR) – The UN Refugee Agency has called for greater solidarity with forcibly displaced populations in ...