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Citizenship Reform: Agreement for the Reform and Civil Concord

Implementations

Citizenship Reform – 2001

According to agreement, an ad hoc committee was to be formed to issue national identity cards to those who could be verified as a member of Djibouti’s community. The agreement sought to give Djibouti nationality to nomad fighting for FRUD. No information is available on the formation of such a committee to distribute the citizenship cards.

Djibouti’s Nationality law’s Article 6 allows individuals from the Republic of Djibouty and surrounding country who acquired French nationality under the law of the administrating power.¹ According to Bezabeh, Djibouti’s government was expelling non- Issa people.²

Samson A. Bezabeh, “Citizenship and the logic of sovereignty in Djibouti,” African Affairs (doi: 10.1093/afraf/adr045), 2011.
Ibid.

Citizenship Reform – 2002

No developments observed this year.

Citizenship Reform – 2003

This provision of the agreement was not implemented. In 2003, government attempted to expel 15% if the entire population (100,000 people) by labeling them illegal migrants.¹

Ibid.