On 3 and 4 December, in Madagascar, Focus Development Association and UNHCR held a training workshop on the right to nationality for 20 parliamentarians from the National Assembly in Ampefy. From 30 November to 4 December, the second edition of the Statelessness and Nationality Course for French speaking statelessness practitioners was organized jointly by the Catholic University for Central Africa and UNHCR in Yaoundé, Cameroon. A total of 60 trainees from 30 countries participated in the virtual course, which was taught principally by trainers from across Africa. Trainers from the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness of the University of Melbourne and from Tilburg University complemented the course with a global perspective. In November and December, the Interinstitutional Technical Committee on statelessness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and UNHCR organized a series of events in Bakavu, Bunia and Goma to engage local authorities in addressing statelessness. The events resulted in a provincial roadmap on the eradication of statelessness by 2024 in the provinces of South Kivu, Ituri and North Kivu. On 14 and 15 December, a stocktaking event as follow-up to the 2019 High-Level Segment on Statelessness and Global Refugee Forum focused on the West and Central Africa region was convened by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) and UNHCR. Despite constraints posed by the pandemic, good progress on the implementation of statelessness pledges has been made in the region, including the establishment of a Statelessness Determination Procedure in Côte d’Ivoire, the adoption of a progressive civil registration framework in Chad, and the publication of a study in Mali, among other achievements. On 11 and 12 November, the Kingdom of Eswatini and UNHCR convened a briefing with Members of Parliament to encourage Parliament to take action in line with the pledge submitted by the Kingdom of Eswatini at the 2019 High-Level Segment on Statelessness to remove gender discriminatory provisions in the nationality law. To support advocacy efforts, UNHCR convened a training session the following day with media and governmental communications staff. On 9 December, UNHCR and UNICEF, under the banner of the Coalition on Every Child’s Right to a Nationality, convened a series of trainings on “Birth Registration and Prevention of Statelessness” for State Registration Service and local authorities in the Kyrgyz Republic. The trainings aimed to raise awareness of international legal standards in the field of birth registration and to support the implementation of the pledges made by Kyrgyz Republic at the 2019 High-Level Segment on Statelessness. On 25 November, the Government of Nigeria adopted a National Action Plan against Statelessness during a Federal Executive Council meeting. On 5 and 10 October, the Directorate for Aid and Assistance to Refugees and Stateless Persons of Côte d’Ivoire and UNHCR organized a workshop in Yamoussoukro to train all 81 staff of the National Council for Human Rights on statelessness and civil registry issues. On the margins of the workshop, UNHCR and the National Council for Human Rights adopted a 2021-2023 Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the implementation of the National Action Plan to End Statelessness and the regional Banjul Action Plan to End Statelessness. On 25 November, the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, in The Minister of Home Affairs and Others v Jose and Another, upheld the decision of the High Court granting citizenship to two brothers of Angolan origin. The order provided clarity on the interpretation of a provision concerning the acquisition of citizenship by naturalization for applicants born in South Africa. Applicants who meet the four listed requirements can now apply for naturalization regardless of whether they were born prior to or after the 2013 Citizenship Act Amendment. 3