ATTORNEY General Mulilo Kabesha has told the Constitutional Court that the existing legal framework sufficiently provides for the acquisition of citizenship by refugees under controller and secure conditions. And Kabesha has told the court that children born from refugees in Zambia acquire their parents’ nationality but may apply for Zambian citizenship when they are 18 years old. In this matter, the Zambian Civil Liberties Union (ZCLU) has dragged the state and three others to the Constitutional Court, seeking a declaration that the definition of the word “ordinarily resident” as contained in Section 2 of the Citizenship of Zambia Act is inconsistent with the definition provided in Article 266 of the Constitution and is therefore null and void to the extent...
