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Pan-Africa

Digitising national identity is not the solution you think it is

Published: 16/Oct/2026
Source: Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg)

Governments across Africa are rushing to digitise national identity systems. They promise administrative efficiency and economic inclusion but rolling out biometric databases with unbridled state dependency on commercial players and ignorance of constitutional realities merely perpetuates historical inequality By Earl […]

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Southern Africa

Digitising national identity is not the solution you think it is

Published: 16/Oct/2026
Source: Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg)

Governments across Africa are rushing to digitise national identity systems. They promise administrative efficiency and economic inclusion but rolling out biometric databases with unbridled state dependency on commercial players and ignorance of constitutional realities merely perpetuates historical inequality By Earl […]

West Africa

Niger: Junta Strips 5 More Exiled Critics of Nationality

Published: 22/Sep/2026
Source: Human Rights Watch

Latest Crackdown Heightens Rights Concerns Amid Renewed Political Tensions (Nairobi) – Niger’s junta has provisionally stripped five more exiled opposition figures of their nationality, extending a controversial policy increasingly used against critics of the military authorities, Human Rights Watch said […]