Namibia to roll out digital ID card in July 2026
The Namibian government has mentioned July 2026 as the date for the rollout of a national digital ID system that…
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Nigeria amplifies efforts to ID prisoners, expand social register
Nigeria’s National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) says its inclusive national digital ID efforts are yielding positive results in the correctional…
Guinea-Bissau deploys efforts to digitize birth registration, national ID systems
Considerable efforts are underway to ensure the complete digitization, integration and modernization of the civil registration and national ID systems…
Liberia needs more funding to widen national ID coverage
The Executive Director of Liberia’s National Identification Registry (NIR), Andrew Peters, says one of the biggest challenges they face in…
São Tomé and Principe pilots MOSIP-based national digital ID system
São Tomé and Principe, Africa’s second smallest country by area and population, with just around a thousand square kilometres and…
‘Unhappy path’ to identity verification costing businesses: Women In Identity
The hidden costs of failing to build inclusion into identity systems during the design phase are unclear, even to organizations…
Ethiopia’s digital ID chief lays out roadmap for reaching 90M enrollments by 2027
“Digital ID is not optional; it is a necessity.” It is on this conviction that Ethiopia is riding to make…
Chad, Mali, Senegal pursue birth registration reforms to close gaps
Efforts deployed by the Republics of Chad, Mali and Senegal to reform and digitize their respective birth registration systems are…
Sri Lanka OneRegistry to bridge gap between citizens and government databases
With help from the UN Development Program (UNDP) and the World Health Organization (WHO), along with the UN Sri Lanka…
Somalia walking a thorny road to an inclusive national digital ID system
Flashback about 30 years ago, Somalia had no functional national ID system. Legal identity in this Horn of Africa nation…
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