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Kenya’s mediation frays as passports withdrawal exposes fragile balance in Somalia
Nairobi’s attempt to broker a truce between Mogadishu and Jubaland has produced not a ceasefire but a fresh crisis — one that underlines how external actors, local strongmen and fragile federal institutions are reshaping Somalia’s political future. Hours after President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud flew to Kismayo for high-stakes talks with Jubaland leader Ahmed “Madobe” Mohamed, Kenyan authorities reportedly revoked the travel documents of two…
Kenya mandates that refugees hand over their passports by October or risk deportation.
John Burugu, holding the ship’s wheel as Kenya’s Refugee Affairs Commissioner, recently faced the media. He laid down a fresh mandate for refugees, a summons demanding they relinquish their passports, pointing to jitters over travel document fiddling while spotlighting the need to toe the line on international laws.
Trafficking in human beings with diplomatic passports
Diplomatic passports stamped with Guinea's Bissauvendu's official stamp for French employers, economists or consultants from a Parisian building. This reveals a Liberation survey. He followed in the footsteps of several men who benefited from this market.
It is by investigating former police officers or soldiers who have…
the government cancels more than 3,500 passports
Since the fall of Omar al-Bashir, the new government has reconsidered the system of obtaining nationality, which has been practiced for thirty years under the old regime. Many passports were granted out of political, diplomatic or economic interest.
as reported from Nairobi, Sebastien nemethPassports are officially canceled due…
Laurent Gbagbo restores his Ivorian passports
The former Ivorian head of state could soon return to Abidjan. After several months of waiting, Laurent Gbagbo recovered his two passports on Friday: a regular and a diplomatic one. Since his arrest in April 2011, Laurent Gbagbo no longer had a travel document.
issuance of biometric passports postponed to a later date
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the resumption of production and issuance of biometric passports, originally scheduled for Monday, November 23, has been postponed to a later date. By June 2020, the controversial agreement between the DRC and the consortium of companies in the Semlex group, which specializes in the production of passports, had ended. Since this period, it is impossible to get a new…