Nigeria prospecting for electronic voting technology provider
Africa’s largest democracy, Nigeria, says it is in search of a voting technology supplier in order to take a step…
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Zwipe partners up to bring biometric payment cards to MENA banks
Biometric payment cards are becoming available to banks in the Middle East and North Africa through a partnership that will…
How Malawi established a biometric national ID system at breakneck speed
Just three years ago, Malawi was without a national registry or ID system and had little in the way of…
Nigeria’s data protection service market to gross $100M by 2023 – Report
It has been estimated that the data protection services market of Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria, will hit the US$100…
Madagascar gets $143M World Bank boost to improve its digital ID management system
The island African nation of Madagascar is set to ameliorate its digital identity management system as well as digitize some…
Huduma Namba digital ID cards to go into production as 2022 election issues raised
After a mass registration exercise to capture the nation’s biometrics for the ambitious Huduma Namba unique identifier number, the program…
Police partner with NIMC for biometric criminal identification in Nigeria’s largest city
The police force in Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos, says it plans to employ biometric technology in order to reverse a…
Next Biometrics to supply sensors for 6,000 biometric payment terminals for African national bank
Next Biometrics has received a follow-on order of 6,000 fingerprint sensors from partner Newland Payment Technology to integrate them with payment…
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…
Ecosystem approach could accelerate biometric enrollment in Nigeria
Nigeria’s goal to enroll the biometrics of all citizens to provide digital identity is possible to achieve in even less…
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