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Pan-Africa

Biometric Digital-ID in Africa: Progress and Challenges to Date – Ten Country Case Studies

Published: 1/Dec/2025
Source: Institute for Development Studies (University of Sussex) and African Digital Rights Network

Edited by ‘Gbenga Sesan and Tony Roberts Millions of citizens in Africa are unable to obtain essential services that they are entitled to as new digital ID systems continue being imposed across the continent, requiring them to provide biometric and […]

Central Africa

Biometric Digital-ID in Africa: Progress and Challenges to Date – Ten Country Case Studies

Published: 1/Dec/2025
Source: Institute for Development Studies (University of Sussex) and African Digital Rights Network

Edited by ‘Gbenga Sesan and Tony Roberts Millions of citizens in Africa are unable to obtain essential services that they are entitled to as new digital ID systems continue being imposed across the continent, requiring them to provide biometric and […]

East Africa

Kenya: Senior citizens in Siaya receive national ID cards for the first time

Published: 14/Jan/2026
Source: The Citizen (Nairobi)

By Laura Otieno Hundreds of senior citizens from Alego Usonga in Siaya County turned up for the ongoing mobile national identity registration drive launched by the government. The residents, most of whom had lost their identification cards in the 80s […]

North Africa

Joint Submission to the UPR 4th cycle: Mauritania

Published: 15/Jan/2026
Source: Institute on Statelessness & Inclusion & others

Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 51st Session of the Universal Periodic Review 4th Cycle Apr-May 2026 Association des femmes chefs de Famille (AFCF), Equality Now, the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights and the Institute on […]

Southern Africa

West Africa