Sierra Leone’s digital ID push: how local brokers help citizens gain legal identity

Sierra Leone’s digital ID push: how local brokers help citizens gain legal identity

An estimated 542 million Africans lack identity cards and potentially face statelessness. Without a legal identity, they can be excluded from basic human rights like education, healthcare and protection. Most African countries have tried to rectify this by adopting a digital identity system to provide “legal identity for all, including birth registration” according to the Sustainable Development Goal 16.9 by 2030. Digital identity systems use da…