Burkina Faso introduces new biometric ID system in major digital leap
The military leader of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traore, has set a new biometric national ID card initiative in motion to…
The military leader of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traore, has set a new biometric national ID card initiative in motion to…
Chinese biometrics firm Emptech is the supplier of Mali’s new biometric passport which was officially launched a few days ago….
Concerned parties within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and specifically, countries of the West Africa Unique Identification…
In the past, there’ve been calls, including from UNECA, for a unique African interoperable digital ID which can be used…
Libyan biometrics solutions provider Al Itissan Al-Jadeed has been contracted to oversee an upgrade of the passport and national ID…
Considerable efforts are underway to ensure the complete digitization, integration and modernization of the civil registration and national ID systems…
Mali is implementing a national digital platform to facilitate access to important documents for the Malian diaspora. The new digital…
Three West African countries – Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger – which are all currently running junta-led governments have announced…
Nigeria is planning to implement the MOSIP platform with its digital identity management system and upgrade its biometric capabilities with…
Biometrics to ease border crossings are a major theme of the week among Biometric Update’s most-read articles of the week….