Somalia Minister of Interior, Federal Affairs, and Reconciliation Ahmed Fiqi held a meeting with senior officials from the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) on Tuesday.
The main objective of the meeting was to brief the minister on their recent study tour in Lilongwe, Malawi.
Representatives from the Office of the Prime Minister, who accompanied them on the benchmarking visit, were also in attendance at the meeting.
Somalia launched its biometric identity card system in Mogadishu in September this year, after the collapse of the military regime of the late President Mohamed Siyad Barre in 1990.
Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre, who inaugurated the National ID system, said that introducing a national ID would help combat security threats, terrorism, and ID fraud.
The Somali federal government plans to register 15 million Somalis for the national ID by the end of 2026, and eventually open registration offices in each of the country’s districts.
