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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Citizens will be spared from paying Shs50,000 to renew their National Identity Cards (IDs) save for those interested in express service, Members of Parliament (MPs) have been assured. The assurance was made by the Minister of State for Internal Affairs, Gen. David Muhoozi in a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The committee on Defence and Internal Affairs is considering investigating a new firm contracted by the Government to print ‘smart’ and ‘digital’ national identity cards. In 2018, the government entered into a joint venture with Veridos, a German company to set up a printing …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Identification and Registration Authority-NIRA and the Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID have started investigations into the source of numerous National Identity Cards and other various documents that were picked from Lubigi. Dozens of suspected stolen identity cards, passports, and vehicle number plates were recovered on Wednesday …

Minister says Ugandans will get the new national IDs free of charge Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) will start a new round of the national identity card registration exercise for all Ugandans in June next year, as the current IDs expire in 2024. The …

These children were born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan to women and young girls who were abducted by LRA rebels during the war that lasted close to two decades in northern Uganda Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 1,017 children who …

Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 900 potential recruits to the Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces-UPDF have been turned away in Buliisa. Some of the youths were found with forged academic papers, no National IDs and recommendation letters from LC1 chairpersons, District Internal Security Officer-DISO, and Resident District Commissioners-RDC. Others …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) will undertake a mass enrolment and renewal exercise of National Identification (ID) cards in 2023, the Minister of State for Internal Affairs, Gen. David Muhoozi said. Muhoozi said NIRA will commence the mass enrollment exercise of National IDs in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has been sued for allegedly excluding elderly people from accessing Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment (SAGE), and public health services among others due to lack of national identification cards. The government was sued together with National Identification and Registration Authority-NIRA, by three Civil …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Private Security Organisations (PSOs) are under the spotlight for confiscating the National Identity cards of their employees. “My monthly salary is Shillings 160,000. I recently got a better paying job where they needed a National ID but my current employers refused to give it to me. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An estimated 54,559 persons aged 80 years and above cannot access the Social Assistance Grant for Empowerment (SAGE) because they do not have National Identification Cards, according to a survey carried out by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development. Data from the gender …