Global ID CEO rewarded in Cameroon for 3D vein biometrics innovation
Professor Lambert Sonna Momo, chief executive officer and founder of Global ID, has received an award in his home country…
Cameroon
Cameroon unveils new details on biometric passport
Cameroon’s General Delegation for National Security (DGSN) has announced July 1 as the new date to commence production of the…
Cameroon launches enrollment campaign for biometric youth card
A process to enroll youth between the ages of 18 and 35 for a biometric youth card program is currently…
Cameroon, Rwanda see progress in biometric passport projects implementation
Rwanda’s project to issue passports with embedded biometric data has attained a new milestone in its implementation process following the…
Cameroon moves to tackle hurdles impeding biometric IDs’ smooth issuance
Cameroon’s general delegation for national security, the body charged with overseeing the issuance of biometrics-backed digital national identity cards for…
Cameroon plans to introduce a biometric youth card in 2021, but is it ready?
Cameroon, like a number of other countries across Africa, is gradually delving into and embracing biometrics and digital identity. This…
Augentic wins biometric passport contract for Cameroon, Fiji issuance appears successful
Cameroon has selected partners Augentic and Portuguese State Printer Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda (INCM) to supply biometric passports and support issuance…
Idemia biometrics secures Africa’s largest welfare transfer system as Nigeria unites identity-handling agencies
Potentially big developments in biometrics this week in Nigeria as the agency managing Africa’s largest national identity program is moved…
Digital ID in Africa this week: biometric ghost-busting in Ghana, resolving double registration status in Kenya
Kenya dominated digital ID developments this week. What could have been its biggest story – downgrading the new role of…
Digital ID in Africa this week: biometric bank cards, birth registrations up, ePassport problems
The importance of biometric legal identity from birth is something of a theme this week as UNICEF pushes the concept…
