(Nairobi, September 22, 2026) – Niger’s junta has provisionally stripped five more exiled opposition figures of their nationality, extending a controversial policy increasingly used against critics of...

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Thailand hasn't stripped a dual national of citizenship since 1965. Kuwait tolerated it for decades, then revoked 50,000 citizenships in a year.

Five of the 13 active citizenship by investment programs publish the nationalities they exclude. The other eight restrict applicants without naming them.

Le président nigérien Abdourahamane Tiani a signé, jeudi 17 septembre 2026, un décret portant déchéance provisoire de la nationalité de cinq personnes, dont l’ancien Premier ministre de Mohamed Bazoum...

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Mohammad Amaan Siddiqui (Oxford University) Migration Patterns in and from the Arabian Gulf Migration planning and migrant identities in the Arabian Gulf are taking increasingly heterogeneous shapes a...

The film accuses the Israeli army of mass civilian killing in Gaza, and Israeli officials say it could be treasonous.

The new citizenship bill for Sahrawis touches a sensitive fault line in Madrid’s ties with Rabat.

Nina Carlsson (Stockholm School of Economics and Migration Institute of Finland) Sweden’s first citizenship test was held on August 15th, 2026, at the Stockholm Exhibition & Congress Centre in the Sou...

President Prabowo Subianto has said the government is mulling offering limited dual citizenship to attract millions of strategically important diaspora talent who could make extraordinary contribution...

Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan said "citizenship is a privilege, not a right" ahead of new rules for people seeking Irish citizenship.

Senegal is on course to become the first African Union (AU) member state to sign and ratify the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights relating to the right to a nationality and ...

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Le Conseil des Ministres a examiné et adopté un projet de loi autorisant le Président de la République à ratifier le Protocole à la Charte africaine des Droits de l'Homme et des Peuples relatif au dro...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto announced on Friday that the government was planning to revise its citizenship law to allow some ​Indonesians to hold dual nationality for the first time.

Armenia should toughen legal requirements for ethnic Armenian foreign nationals seeking to become its dual citizens, Deputy Interior Minister Armen Ghazarian said on Friday.

The European University Institute presents a comparison of the citizenship laws of 32 European countries to Parliament

West African governments are offering citizenship to descendants of enslaved Africans and other diaspora members as both a symbolic act of reparative justice and a practical strategy to attract invest...

Molti commentatori hanno criticato in questi giorni il governo Meloni per la reazione avuta dinanzi agli avvenimenti di Ceuta, l’enclave spagnola in territorio africano. Sono d’accordo con molte delle...

“I know how easily words like ‘traitor’ and ‘enemy’ can be wielded by those in power to crush hope and sow fear.”

Without a legal identity, an individual is stripped of basic human rights, barred from formal education, blocked from healthcare, denied basic state services and rights, and vulnerable to institutiona...

In Southeast Asia, colonial legacies and citizenship policies continue to leave hundreds of thousands without legal nationality.

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Italy’s Constitutional Court has referred a strict new law restricting citizenship to Europe’s highest court, offering hope to thousands seeking a new nationality.

Section 17 makes the foreign mother the only parent that counts, and the 2024 reform does not reach anyone already born.

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In the recent decision of Minister of Home Affairs and Another v Sakharov (2024-044391) [2026]ZAGPPHC 648 (22 June 2026), the Pretoria High Court had to determine whether the Department of HomeAffairs...

“I know how easily words like ‘traitor’ and ‘enemy’ can be wielded by those in power to crush hope and sow fear.”

And FdI has put forward its proposal on repatriation, so that convicted migrants serve their sentences in their country of origin

Everyone has the right to a nationality

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Court struck down US President Trump's executive order abolishing it, but he has pledged to challenge the ruling.