{"id":14335,"date":"2017-09-05T17:39:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T17:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=14335"},"modified":"2017-09-06T17:41:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:41:12","slug":"kenya-goes-it-alone-on-e-passport-as-neighbours-dither","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/kenya-goes-it-alone-on-e-passport-as-neighbours-dither\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Goes It Alone On e-Passport as Neighbours Dither"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite class=\"byline\">By Victor Kiprop<\/cite><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Kenya has rolled out the East African Community (EAC) electronic passport, 17 years after discussions to develop the document began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The new generation e-passport, which conforms to the international civil standards, replaces the existing national document, set to be phased out by September 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">&#8220;The Immigration Department will no longer process and issue the current ordinary, diplomatic and East African passports,&#8221; said Director of Immigration Gordon Kihalangwa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The e-passport is embedded with a machine readable computer chip which contains the holder&#8217;s biometric information on a tamper-proof page, and has been touted as a major step in curbing fraud and easing clearance at international airports where e-readers are installed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Read further: <a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201709050294.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201709050294.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Victor Kiprop Kenya has rolled out the East African Community (EAC) electronic passport, 17 years after discussions to develop the document began. The new generation e-passport, which conforms to the international civil standards, replaces the existing national document, set to be phased out by September 2019. &#8220;The Immigration Department will no longer process and [&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-14335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-east-africa","region-kenya","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\/14335","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=14335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14336,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335\/revisions\/14336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}