The African Development Bank (AfDB) recently introduced its new fingerprint-embedded Laissez-Passer document at ID4Africa 2017 in Windhoek, Namibia. The travel document for regional development is one of a series of regional projects across the continent with the goal of using…
The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU), at its 661st meeting held on 23 February 2017, at the ministerial level, adopted the following decision on Free Movement of People and Goods and its Implications on Peace…
Investment tends to follow infrastructural facilities. People follow transportation routes, job opportunities and money. Money attracts more money and also attracts talent. But above all, an infrastructure-supported mobility regime is sustainable and irreversible, even in the face of serious security…
By Regina Jane Jere Excitement, praise, concern, and heaps of speculation have greeted the much-hyped launch of the common African e-passport at the Kigali African Union Summit on 17th July. To the majority of ordinary Africans, over a billion of…
The AU urges all Member States to adopt the African Passport and to work closely with the AU Commission to facilitate the processes towards its issuance at national level based on international, continental and national policy provisions, and continental design…
Paragraph 5 of the Decision: The Executive Council […] 5. WELCOMES the development by the ACHPR of the draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa, the draft…
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, has said that the soon-to-be-launched AU passport may not achieve the desired result if it does not have legal framework to support it. He said this in an interview with the News agency…
The African Union is set to launch a common electronic passport that would grant visa-free travel to all of its 54 member-states, a move that hits at the organisation’s long-running goal of more closely linking nations from across the continent.…
The African Union is set to launch an e-passport that allows visa-free travel through its 54 member states, a move that comes amid turmoil in the European Union. By Max Lewontin The African Union is set to launch a common…
This is a guest post by David Gerulski, VP at Integrated Biometrics The recent ID4Africa forum in Kigali, Rwanda was as exciting as it was insightful, with a buzz surrounding new technologies for launching digital ID systems throughout the continent. For mobile…