AFRICA: MANY people may take their birth certificate, or similar official papers, for granted - hidden in a drawer and rarely ...

In many developed countries, a birth certificate is a given, but in many African countries, obtaining one is not the norm. In sub-Saharan Africa, according to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), only ...

An NGO has taken the South African government to court over a backlog of hundreds of thousands of applications for late birth registration, with some people waiting for seven years for a response from ...

Mpho Modise can only guess her age and it embarrasses her. “I would say I am about 33,” she says. She is unsure because her birth in South Africa was never registered. Yet establishing her age is the ...