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AU petitioned over legal ID discrimination suffered by Kenyan minority group

Legal representatives of a human rights group, Nubian Rights Forum (NRF), have submitted a petition to the African Union (AU)…

 

ID4Africa announces 2025 Ambassadors Class that reflects growing legal ID impact

A total of 126 diligently chosen personalities from Africa’s identity ecosystem make up the 2025 batch of Ambassadors and deputies…

 

New civil registration law refocuses Cameroon’s push for SDG 16.9 legal ID target

Ornela Ndip is a 25-year-old internally displaced person (IDP) who fled her hometown of Kembong, Manyu Division, South West Region…

 

Women in Identity prepares ID Code of Conduct phase 3, on costs of ID exclusion

Identity and ID documents aren’t the same thing – but, in administrative terms, they might as well be. Without identification,…

 

Afghanistan to open more digital ID centers as issuance passes 15M

Afghanistan’s National Information and Statistics Authority (NSIA) says it is in the process of opening up more centers for the…

 

NADRA powers Somalia’s digital transformation with foundational ID infrastructure

Somalia is certainly on the right path in the pursuit of its digital transformation ambitions, thanks in large part to…

 

Malawi swells civil registry with 74K biometric enrollments in one week

Malawi’s National Registration Bureau (NRB) says it enrolled 74,127 citizens into the national civil registry in a supplementary exercise that…

 

Internal govt coordination can help meet birth registration target in Asia

Sub-Saharan Africa is the region where the biggest improvements must be made to meet the UN’s birth registration goals, but…

 

Identification for development: A Who’s Who

Identification for development, sometimes styled as “ID4D,” is a global initiative that seeks to provide legal identity for the 850…

 

Kenya records major gains in Maisha Namba ID backlog clearance

Kenya’s State Department of Immigration and Citizen Services says that its efforts to advance the Maisha digital ID project led…

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