Sierra Leone Correctional Service deploys biometric registration system from Fix Solution
Fix Solution (SL) Ltd. and the Sierra Leone Correctional Service (SLCS) collaborated to introduce a biometric registration system for convicted…
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Biometric voter registration kits arrive in Sierra Leone
More than 4,000 biometric voter registration kits valued at over $13 million USD arrived at the Lungi Airport in Sierra…
Sierra Leone to use biometric voter registration
Sierra Leone will be using biometric registration for the first time in its upcoming presidential, parliamentary and local council elections…
Biometric Voter Registration Fraud reported in Sierra Leone
The National Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone has announced that 794 people were caught engaging in registration fraud during a…
Nigerian digital ID initiative for people with disabilities wins Mission Billion Challenge
Finalists of Mission Billion Challenge 2020, a World Bank-sponsored initiative that seeks to ensure inclusivity of digital identity systems for…
Smartmatic wins Uganda biometric voter registration kit contract with $22.4M bid
After last week’s special report on Nigeria and Ghana, we cast our biometrics news net across the African continent again…
Biometrics and digital ID in Africa this week: politics, ecommerce, Covid-19 biometric capture bans
Covid-19 continues to impact biometric systems across Africa. After initial reports in previous weeks of systems being suspended to reduce…
Biometrics and digital ID in Africa this week: increasing CCTV surveillance, new ID document contracts
Madagascar and Zimbabwe seem to be shifting toward far greater government surveillance with public CCTV networks, according to reports this…
Biometrics and digital ID across Africa this week: savings and costs in Nigeria, divisions in Tanzania, Ghana
Once again, Nigeria dominates the biometrics news agenda in Africa and this week; even a university has resorted to biometric…
Biometrics and digital ID across Africa this week: mass enrollments, closed borders and system failures
While Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Chad either launched or announced mass enrollments for biometric civil registrations, the system in…
