{"id":13544,"date":"2017-07-10T08:10:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T08:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=13544"},"modified":"2017-07-11T08:13:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T08:13:58","slug":"malawi-the-last-country-standing-on-national-identity-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/malawi-the-last-country-standing-on-national-identity-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi the last country standing on national identity cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">By Penelope Paliani Kamanga<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The move to give Malawians identity cards has entered its second month with only 200,000 people registered out of the ambitious move to register 9 million by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Malawi, which is the only country in Southern Africa and Comesa without national identity cards (IDs), had been under pressure to fast-track the process of issuing the IDs to address the challenges the country has long faced due to the absence of the documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Malawians currently use driving licenses, passports, and in some cases voter registration certificates as proof of their citizenship in places and institutions where identification is needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Those who don\u2019t have such documents are asked to bring any person with a passport or driving license to be a witness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/southernafrican.news\/2017\/07\/10\/malawi-the-last-country-standing-on-national-identity-cards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/southernafrican.news\/2017\/07\/10\/malawi-the-last-country-standing-on-national-identity-cards\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Penelope Paliani Kamanga The move to give Malawians identity cards has entered its second month with only 200,000 people registered out of the ambitious move to register 9 million by the end of this year. Malawi, which is the only country in Southern Africa and Comesa without national identity cards (IDs), had been under [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-malawi","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13547,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544\/revisions\/13547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}