Opposition MPs push for parliamentary debate on Cameroon’s ID card problems
A member of the opposition in Cameroon’s lower house of Parliament, Youmo Koupit Adamou, says he and his peers plan…
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A member of the opposition in Cameroon’s lower house of Parliament, Youmo Koupit Adamou, says he and his peers plan…
Officials of Zimbabwe are in their final days of preparation for the nation’s first mobile biometric voter registration drive. Beginning…
The ID card issuing authority in Côte d’Ivoire – the National Civil Status Registration and Identification Office (ONECI) – has…
Amid a barrage of criticism over vote credibility, political scientist Abiodun Fatai posits that the Biometric Voter Accreditation System (BVAS),…
Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) is currently engaged in a number of activities as part of its preparations for the…
Telecom provider MTN Group is expanding its biometric SIM registration program into five new countries in Africa through its partnership…
More than 1,000 Ghanaians travelled into the country from different destinations around the world using their national biometric ID credential…
The identity landscape in Kenya continues to shift as birth registration goes digital on 1 March and funding for Huduma…
Zimbabwe is building New Harare, a smart city on the outskirts of Harare that will be the new seat of…
India sees an interoperable future for its economy and African countries could benefit from separating population registers and social protection…