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South Africa: Draft Official Identity Management Policy

Published: 31/Dec/2020
Source: South African Department of Home Affairs

Public Consultation Version, Government Notice No.1425, 31 December 2020 Section 3.3 Policy Objectives: This policy is developed with the following objectives in mind: Enable an inclusive digital population register that is secure, accurate and confidential Position the DHA as the […]

Sudan joins forces with Egypt to crack down on Muslim Brotherhood

Published: 30/Dec/2020
Source: Al-Monitor.com

By George Mikhail Egypt is seeking to join efforts with Sudan to confront the Muslim Brotherhood and extremist groups and ideas through several security and religious steps. In this context, the joint training course for imams of Egypt and Sudan […]

Kenya: Issuance of Huduma Namba cards is illegal

Published: 29/Dec/2020
Source: The Standard (Nairobi)

By Mustafa Mahmoud On Mashujaa Day, Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i handed the president his Huduma card and announced that the process of integrating personal data for Huduma Namba was complete. Soon after, the CS officially launched the distribution of […]

Algérie: retrait à distance de documents d’état civil : démarrage difficile

Published: 27/Dec/2020
Source: tsa-algerie.com

La modernisation et la numérisation de l’administration publique peinent à se concrétiser en Algérie en raison des difficultés d’accès à Internet. Malgré les efforts du gouvernement pour lutter contre la bureaucratie en démocratisant les outils de retrait à distance des […]

Kenya: Stateless communities in Kwale sweat over citizenship

Published: 23/Dec/2020
Source: The Star (Nairobi)

by SHABAN OMAR The burden of being non-citizens keeps on crushing the stateless communities in Kwale as they clamour for citizenship. In Kwale, most stateless people are found in Vanga, Shimoni, Gazi, Mangwei, among other areas of Msambweni and Lunga […]

MTN’s race against time: Nigeria extends deadline, but not by much

Published: 22/Dec/2020
Source: Business Insider (Johannesburg)

By Ntando Thukwana MTN in Nigeria now has a couple more weeks to update and link the SIM cards of up to 30 million of its users with their ID numbers, after the telecoms regulator extended the deadline for the […]

Togo hopes to launch new biometric ID card in 2021

Published: 22/Dec/2020
Source: Biometric Update

By Ayang Macdonald The minister in charge of digital economy and digital transformation in the West African nation of Togo, Cina Lawson, says one of the big digital projects the country is looking up to next year is the rollout […]

Case note: Kennedy Gihana & Others v Republic of Rwanda, African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights Application No 017/2015

Published: 21/Dec/2020
Source: Statelessness and Citizenship Review

By Tshegofatso Mothapo, Statelessness and Citizenship Review, 2(2), 331–337. This case note discusses Kennedy Gihana v Republic of Rwanda, Application No 017/2015 (‘Kennedy’). The case addressed whether the invalidation of the appellants’ passports was an arbitrary deprivation of nationality, rendering […]