{"id":22470,"date":"2019-04-26T14:26:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=22470"},"modified":"2019-05-01T14:29:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T14:29:57","slug":"tanzania-president-tells-nida-to-speed-up-issuance-of-national-ids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/tanzania-president-tells-nida-to-speed-up-issuance-of-national-ids\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania: President tells Nida to speed up issuance of national IDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By John Namkwahe<\/p>\n<p>Dar es Salaam. President John Magufuli has instructed the National Identifications Authority (Nida) to speed up the issuance of national IDs to Tanzanians.<\/p>\n<p>The President&#8217;s order comes after the Tanzania Communication Regulatory Authority (TCRA) through telecommunication companies announced that all mobile phone subscribers ought to verify and register their SIM Cards biometrically by December, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The National ID is the sole document which is required in the biometric registration of SIM card which kicks off on May 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those who have the IDs should get registered as scheduled,&#8221; says President Magufuli at public rally in Mbeya on Friday, April 26, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>According to the President Nida has so far issued about 14 million IDs in country with a population of over 55 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecitizen.co.tz\/News\/President-tells-Nida-to-speed-up-issuance-of-national-IDs-\/1840340-5089552-sg6vl9\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.thecitizen.co.tz\/News\/President-tells-Nida-to-speed-up-issuance-of-national-IDs-\/1840340-5089552-sg6vl9\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By John Namkwahe Dar es Salaam. President John Magufuli has instructed the National Identifications Authority (Nida) to speed up the issuance of national IDs to Tanzanians. The President&#8217;s order comes after the Tanzania Communication Regulatory Authority (TCRA) through telecommunication companies announced that all mobile phone subscribers ought to verify and register their SIM Cards biometrically [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-uncategorized","region-tanzania","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22470","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=22470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22471,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22470\/revisions\/22471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}