A citizen without a country: Former MP’s fight for nationality

South Sudan President Salva Kiir (right) with his new vice president Taban Deng Gai at State House, in Juba on July 26, 2016.

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Nearly two years after an African Union rights body asked South Sudanese authorities to reverse the cancellation of a former lawmaker’s citizenship, she is still fighting to regain it.

The case centres on Afekuru Animu Rasasi Amiati, a former South Sudanese MP whose citizenship was revoked by President Salva Kiir’s government in 2021.