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This meant that Banyarwanda who arrived in Congo as imported laborers after 1908 lost their nationality. [109] In 1965, the Congo adopted a nationality law (Décret-Loi du 18 septembre 1965), which specified that legitimate children acquired nationality through their Congolese fathers and illegitimate children acquired nationality from their ...
Nationality may be lost in the Republic of the Congo for failure to perform military obligations; performing actions indicating one is a national of another state; serving in the government or military of another state; committing serious crimes, disloyal acts, or crimes against the state; or for fraud, misrepresentation, or concealment in a ...
The Luluabourg Constitution denied citizenship to most Rwandan immigrants in the Congo. [12] Marcel Bisukiro , a former government minister, criticised it as discriminatory. [ 14 ] Following a coup on 24 November 1965, Colonel Joseph Mobutu became president of the country and the constitution was suspended. [ 15 ]
Anyone belonging to the ethnic groups whose persons and territory constituted what became Congo (currently the Democratic Republic of the Congo), at independence is a Congolese national. Any Congolese national who has not lost his/her political rights, by virtue of a court decision, or by virtue of the law, is a Congolese citizen.
The Congo River is the world's deepest river and the world's third-largest river by discharge. The Comité d'études du haut Congo ("Committee for the Study of the Upper Congo"), established by King Leopold II of Belgium in 1876, and the International Association of the Congo, established by him in 1879, were also named after the river. [21]
Tutsi who emigrated to the Congo before Congolese independence from Belgium in 1960 are known as Banyamulenge, meaning "from Mulenge", and had the right to citizenship under law. [32] Tutsi who emigrated following independence are known as Banyarwanda , although locals often do not distinguish between the two, calling both Banyamulenge, and ...
The Congo Crisis (French: Crise congolaise) was a period of political upheaval and conflict between 1960 and 1965 in the Republic of the Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo). [ c ] The crisis began almost immediately after the Congo became independent from Belgium and ended, unofficially, with the entire country under the rule of ...
The subject of birth aboard aircraft and ships is one with a long history in public international law.The law on the subject is complex, because various states apply differing principles of nationality, namely jus soli and jus sanguinis, to varying degrees and with varying qualifications.