{"id":36362,"date":"2022-07-15T09:43:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T09:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=36362"},"modified":"2022-08-06T09:45:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T09:45:25","slug":"congos-troubled-lucrative-biometric-passport-contract-still-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/congos-troubled-lucrative-biometric-passport-contract-still-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo\u2019s troubled, lucrative biometric passport contract still open?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jim Nash<\/p>\n<p>It still is not known who, if anyone, has won a contract to make biometric passports for the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>The contract with Congo, a large, south-central African nation of 95 million people, could be lucrative, but Congo\u2019s political currents and cross-currents make handicapping the winner tricky.<\/p>\n<p>July 15 was to be the day a winner was chosen, but at deadline, no announcement had been made.<\/p>\n<p>A gated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africaintelligence.com\/central-africa\/2022\/07\/15\/semlex-angles-for-biometric-passport-contract,109799730-art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis<\/a> by Africa Intelligence indicates that Belgian firm Semlex will keep the biometric contract, which, except for five months last year, it has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biometricupdate.com\/201606\/semlex-chosen-for-new-congolese-passport\">held<\/a> since 2016. Semlex subsidiary Locosem has the contract now.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biometricupdate.com\/202207\/congos-troubled-lucrative-biometric-passport-contract-still-open\">https:\/\/www.biometricupdate.com\/202207\/congos-troubled-lucrative-biometric-passport-contract-still-open<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jim Nash It still is not known who, if anyone, has won a contract to make biometric passports for the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Congo. The contract with Congo, a large, south-central African nation of 95 million people, could be lucrative, but Congo\u2019s political currents and cross-currents make handicapping the winner tricky. July 15 [&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-36362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-democratic-republic-of-congo","type-news-articles","item-year-683","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36362","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=36362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36365,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36362\/revisions\/36365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}