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The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) is a government-owned organisation in Uganda, mandated to register births and deaths in the country and to develop a National Identification Register for both citizens and legally resident non-citizens. NIRA is also mandated to issue national identification numbers and cards for ...
Uganda: National Identity Card Compulsory for Ugandan citizens anywhere in the world, and compulsory for non-citizen permanent residents in Uganda. [104] In April–August 2014 the government registered sixteen out of eighteen million citizens. [105] In 2017 the government began a nationwide effort to register children. [105]
Persons born anywhere who have at least one parent or grandparent who was a national of Uganda by birth; [11] [12] Persons born in Uganda who belong to one of the sixty-five indigenous communities defined in the constitution of Uganda by virtue of having a parent or grandparent who lived in the territory on 1 February 1926; or [13] [14] [Notes 1]
Rosemary Kisembo, is a Ugandan software engineer and corporate executive, who serves as the Executive Director of the National Identification and Registration Authority of Uganda (NIRA) effective 14 May 2021. She took over from Judy Obitre–Gama, a lawyer, whose contract ended in 2020 and was not extended. [1]
In Somalia, the National Identification and Registration Authority was established in March 2023. Its mandate includes developing a National Identification Number, designed to streamline administrative processes, enhance security, and mitigate fraud and corruption by verifying identities in both digital and in-person transactions.
Introduced by the National Registration Department of Malaysia on September 5, 2001, as one of four MSC Malaysia flagship applications [44] and a replacement for the High Quality Identity Card (Kad Pengenalan Bermutu Tinggi), Malaysia became the first country in the world to use an identification card that incorporates both photo identification ...
Long title: An Act to make provision for a national scheme of registration of individuals and for the issue of cards capable of being used for identifying registered individuals; to make it an offence for a person to be in possession or control of an identity document to which he is not entitled, or of apparatus, articles or materials for making false identity documents; to amend the Consular ...
This case led to The Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC) tribunal in Uganda ordering the Ministry of Internal Affairs to give national ID cards and passports to multiracial persons—and directing all government components to treat all Ugandans equally without regard to color or racial heritage in the processing of citizenship benefits. [10] [11 ...