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...

Ceci est un communiqué du département communication de la commission de la CEDEAO. • mardi 9 mai 2017 à 00h13min Le ministre gambien de l’Intérieur, Mai Ahmad Fatty, a invité les Etats membres de la Communauté économique des Etats d’Afrique de l’ouest (Cedeao) à tout mettre en œuvre pour éradique...

By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - 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 ...

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...

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, Reuters reports human rights experts as saying on Monday. Stateless people, sometim...

Banjul, le 7 mai 2017. Le ministre gambien de l’Intérieur, Mai Ahmad Fatty, a invité les Etats membres de la Communauté économique des Etats d’Afrique de l’ouest (Cedeao) à tout mettre en œuvre pour éradiquer l’apatridie dans l’espace communautaire. M. Fatty a lancé cet appel, ce dimanche 7 mai 201...

Abidjan, 08 mai (AIP) – Le ministre gambien de l’Intérieur, Mai Ahmad Fatty, a invité les Etats membres de la Communauté économique des Etats d’Afrique de l’ouest (CEDEAO) à tout mettre en œuvre pour éradiquer l’apatridie dans l’espace communautaire. M. Fatty a lancé cet appel, dimanche à Banjul, e...

A Banjul, à partir de ce dimanche 7 mai et jusqu'à mardi, le Haut-Commissariat aux réfugiés (HCR, qui gère aussi les apatrides) et la Cédéao organisent une réunion ministérielle pour traiter le problème de l'apatridie en Afrique de l'Ouest. Le continent est fortement touché par la question de ces pe...

By Nellie Peyton DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - School teachers in the Lake Chad region where Boko Haram is waging an insurgency are being trained to identify and respond to security threats to protect children from the Islamist group, the United Nations said on Thursday. Schools are parti...

Niger's Tuareg community held a festival on Tuesday to honour 22 years of peace with the government. But tribal leaders meeting in the north-western region of Tahoua warn that poverty, drought and armed groups have to be tackled to guarantee stability.