{"id":15624,"date":"2017-12-04T10:24:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T10:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=15624"},"modified":"2018-01-08T10:26:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T10:26:43","slug":"malawi-issues-9-million-national-ids-in-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/malawi-issues-9-million-national-ids-in-six-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi issues 9 million National IDs in six months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lilongwe \u2013 Malawi has for the first time after 50 years of its independence issued biometric national identity cards (IDs) to 9 million people.<\/p>\n<p>The issuance of the 9 million national IDs follows the implementation of mass registration exercise completed within a six-month period spanning from May to November this year.<\/p>\n<p>Various stakeholders have lauded the initiative with many descriptions such as \u201ctransformative milestone, fulfilled promise, landmark development and a guarantor of citizenship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Malawians had to endure a long wait in order to get legal documents identifying them as bona-fide citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maravipost.com\/malawi-issues-9-million-national-ids-six-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.maravipost.com\/malawi-issues-9-million-national-ids-six-months\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lilongwe \u2013 Malawi has for the first time after 50 years of its independence issued biometric national identity cards (IDs) to 9 million people. The issuance of the 9 million national IDs follows the implementation of mass registration exercise completed within a six-month period spanning from May to November this year. Various stakeholders have lauded [&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-15624","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\/15624","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=15624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15625,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15624\/revisions\/15625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}