Nigeria moves to implement biometric ECOWAS card with $41M MoU
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed by the Nigerian government’s Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) and Euphoria Press…
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Five ECOWAS member states select SPS for biometric national ID cards
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has been carrying out a document standardization project to enable interoperability between…
Distribution of ECOWAS Biometric ID Cards to begin in January 2016
The Chairman of the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) Commission, Kadre Desire Ouedraogo, recently presented samples of the…
Burkina Faso approves operational framework for WURI digital ID rollout
Burkina Faso’s cabinet on July 30 adopted a decree that spells out the operational and logistical framework for mass registration…
Niger joins regional biometric passport initiative with Burkina Faso, Mali
Niger has become the latest member of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) to launch a regional biometric passport as…
Interoperable digital ecosystems next frontier of Africa’s digital transformation
Sierra Leone’s Minister of Communication, Technology and Innovation, Salima Monorma Bah, says African countries must move beyond isolated national digital…
African countries explore DPI partnerships at Estonia forum
Delegates from some African nations recently attended a digital public infrastructure (DPI) summit session in Estonia where they explored avenues…
The Gambia upgrades police forensics capacity with biometric system launch
The Gambia has launched an Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) to strengthen criminal investigations in the country with forensic biometrics….
Focus on Sahel digital sovereignty gets clearer with Niger’s new biometric ID card
Niger has become the second country of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) to launch a new biometric national ID…
Senegal data breach disrupts national ID issuance
The issuance of national ID cards in Senegal recently got halted on a temporary basis after the government reported a…
