A quarter of the Mauritanian population is still without civil status. A continuing situation that deplores the parliamentarian and human rights activist, President of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA-Mauritania). Biram Dah Abeid on Monday, March 29, called on the authorities to put an end to “statelessness among these Mauritanians in their own country”. He went to a registration center in Nouakchott to support undocumented migrants.
as reported from Nouakchott, Salem Mejbour
The Teyarett Registration Center, located north of Nouakchott, is too small to accommodate hundreds of Mauritanians who have come to register. Because without documents from marital status, they are deprived of travel and employment and their children cannot go to school.
“Many patients who come to hospitals in Mauritania cannot benefit from free national care because they do not have a civil status document. Many Mauritanian citizens cannot travel to support themselves and try their luck, because they lack documents of civil status, explains activist and politician Biram Dah Abeid.
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This is the case with Youba, who comes from Adel Bagrou, a city in the far east of Mauritania near the border with Mali: “I have no civil status paper. I came here to be recruited to get these documents. But when I came here I was told that I would go back to Adel Bagrou. I came with my father, my mother, my wife, my four children, but there is still no solution. You’re coming today, you’ll know you’ll be back tomorrow. And so on.”
The National Agency for Populations and Secured Titles states that the census is inclusive for all Mauritanians who come with their families. “A Mauritanian is a Mauritanian, because he has parents, because he has cousins in Mauritania, because he has a family in Mauritania. So that means he can not say: I am Mauritanian, I have no connection. I have no father or mother, brother or sister. That is not possible, ”said Boide Sghair Sidi Mohamed, the agency’s secretary general.
According to the official, 145,000 Mauritanian adults were identified between 2019 and 2020.
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