Although Ghana pledged in 2015 to end statelessness in 2016, it still remains one of the few West African countries yet to implement the national action plan to eradicate statelessness. The Abidjan Declaration was adopted in 2015 by Head of States of the Economic Community of West African States ...

Hon. Sani Zorro, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) has disclosed Nigeria’s government plan to issue United Nations passport to people at risk of being stateless. Zorro made this known during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Sat...

The House of Representatives is reviewing the option to allot funds for the production and release of national identification (ID) cards for all Liberians. The House’s Committees on State Enterprise, Judiciary and Ways, Means, Finance and Development Planning have been tasked with seeking expert ...

Who Belongs? Statelessness and Nationality in West Africa At least 10 million people around the world are stateless, according to estimates from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), but the real number may be much higher. Statelessness severely limits a person’s human rights...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) have said they would jointly commemorate the first anniversary of the Abidjan Declaration to Eradicate Statelessness in West Africa by 2024 on Thursday, 25 February, 2016. Last year, ministers from the 15 Eco...