Sudan to launch advanced, nationwide civil registry in mid-May
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May 9, 2011 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan is set to launch a high-tech civil
registry project on 16 May, targeting vital events of 16 million of
the country’s population as well as foreign residents
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Photo taken from the website of Sudan’s civil registry authority
In a report presented to the council of ministers last month, Sudan’s
Minister of Interior Ibrahim Mahmoud said that all financial and
technical preparations had been completed to commence the process on
Monday, 16 May.
According to Mahmoud, whose ministry will maintain the registry, the
technical arrangements include advanced registration methods and
ameliorated system of personal ID and civil fingerprint as well as the
establishment of the registry’s communication network through optical
fiber cables.
The minister further said that the process targets the registration of
eight million people by the end of 2011, out of a total target
population of 16 million people.
The registration would take place at 32 centers across the country,
including seven stations in the densely-populated capital, Khartoum,
in addition to 1024 mobile registration units, the minister said.
Meanwhile, the director-general of the civil registry department at
the ministry of interior, Maj-Gen Mohamed Ahmad Al-Sayyed, said that
the project targets the registration of both locals and foreigners,
but added that only Sudanese citizens would be entitled to receive a
national ID number.
In an interview with Sudan’s state-run radio, the civil registry chief
stressed that granting the national ID card to people from south Sudan
would be subject to “political considerations.”
He added that the nationality law gives the president the right to
revoke the citizenship of groups and individuals if their citizenship
is acquired or gained at birth.
Citizens of South Sudan voted overwhelmingly in a referendum held in
January to secede from the main homeland and form an independent state
whose official existence is due in July 2010. The plebiscite was part
of the 2005’s peace agreement which ended decades of north-south civil
wars.
Al-Sayyed said that the civil registry project had benefited from the
database provided by the 2008’s census. However, he said that several
other state apparatus would act as a reference of database, such as
the Ministry of Education through obliging students wishing to acquire
secondary school certificates to record their information with the
civil registry.
The official further revealed that his administration aims to increase
the seven permanent registration sites in Khartoum to 50 centers in
2012.
The Ministry of Interior announced that the acquisition of the
national ID card would be compulsory to all citizens for them to
receive state-rendered services, including school registration,
banking transaction, driving licenses and passports.
The ministry further said that the new national ID card would be
forgery-proof, using various biometric authentication methods,
including laser-printed names and iris recognition.
Police Deputy Chief Adil Al-Aggab explained that the project is
considered a cornerstone of the state because it provides a
permanently-developed database on the vital events of families and
individuals.
However, the technical adviser of the civil register project, Majdi
Mohamed Sharief, admitted that the process would be faced with
difficulties in remote areas due to the weakness or unavailability of
communication networks, adding that in such case the issuance of the
ID card might be late for two days or more.
(ST)
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