Africa has seen an increase in the deployment and use of digital technologies and in its attempt to establish and improve national identification and registration systems across the region. Countries in Africa are progressively restructuring their civil registration systems in […]
By Ayang Macdonald This December could usher in good tidings for citizens of the central African nation of Gabon who have gone for many years without seeing any new issuance of the national ID card. This is if things roll […]
La campagne s’inscrit dans le cadre des engagements pris par le gouvernement de la République du Congo en matière de lutte contre l’apatridie sur l’ensemble de son territoire. L’initiative de cette organisation vise la prévention de l’apatridie. Cette deuxième phase concerne […]
By ZELDA VENTER WITH the intervention of the court, a boy born nearly four years ago will, for the first time, officially have a name and legal standing in South Africa after red tape has denied him of this right […]
By Ayang Macdonald Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) is hoping to be second time lucky in convincing parliament to approve its plan of making the Ghana Card the only ID document required for voter registration. The EC plans to take back […]
The AU official told Daily Sun that Tinubu got his Guinean citizenship because the former President of Guinea, Alpha Conde, saw him as a special envoy. Ousmane Yara, the African Union Ambassador, has claimed that Nigerian “President-elect”, Bola Tinubu got […]
By Ayang Macdonald Stateless persons as well as newborns in Rwanda will be among those able to have a digital identity card if a legislative amendment proposed by the country’s government comes to fruition. The proposal to amend the 2008 […]
by Daniel Sabiiti The Parliament of Rwanda has given a green light to revise a draft law that will allow the government to start issuing digital Identity Cards (IDs) for Rwandans, stateless persons, and children at birth. The proposal was […]
Timothy Choji, Abuja The Nigerian government has granted citizenship to 385 foreign nationals residing in the country. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola disclosed this on Wednesday to State House Correspondents, at the end of this week’s meeting of the […]
Auditor General John Muwanga has warned that Uganda may not switch smoothly to the new digital national identification cards because the responsible agency does not appear to be ready to effect the transition. The new, next-generation identity cards, which are […]
Download gazetted version: Ethiopia Digital ID proclamation 1284-2023 Download undated searchable PDF: Ethiopia_Digital-ID-Proclamation-EN_2023 Also numbered 1284/2015 in Ethiopian calendar. Also available at: https://id.gov.et/
The controversy surrounding the life of Nigeria’s ‘president-elect’, Bola Tinubu does not appear to have an end in sight. The latest controversy surrounds trending photos of Tinubu’s alleged Guinean passport, implying that the ‘president-elect’ has dual citizenship. There had been controversies […]