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DRC
Free-for-all over ID contracts

Contracts to produce passports, driving licences, vehicle registration certificates and voter ID cards, frozen under the Kabila administration, are now the focus of intense competition under Félix Tshisekedi. [...]

Published on 04/03/2020 at 04:30 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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DRC
Albert Karaziwan
Albert Yuma
Alidor Beya
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Emmanuel Antebi
Felix Tshisekedi
Francois Beya Kasonga
Gecamines
Gemalto
Idemia
Imprimerie nationale
Joseph Kabila
Makolo wa Ngoy Kabila
Nikuv International Projects
Semlex in 2015
Thales

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Kinshasa relaunches €400m mega contract for future ID cards

The DRC is back on the hunt for a company to fill a €400m future ID card contract.

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DRC
Semlex angles for biometric passport contract

The Belgian company Semlex has activated its contacts, particularly at the foreign ministry, in the hope of winning the tender call ahead of nine other firms.

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DRC
President's advisers and ministers at odds over biometric contracts

The presidency signed a framework agreement for the supply of biometric documents with the French parastatal company IN Groupe six months ago. But Congolese ministries continue to make deals for biometric documents with other service providers.

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Newcomers flourishing on African market worry biometrics leaders

Biometric identification is booming across African countries where governments have issued licences for identification document and electoral card production. For the moment this high-growth market is dominated by French, German and Belgian firms - Thales, Idemia, Veridos, Zetes and Semlex - but dynamic outsiders, such as Augentic, are beginning to nudge their way in.

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DRC's biometric passport manufactured by Semlex.

DRC
Semlex attempt to sign new passport contract thwarted

The Belgian group Semlex, which last June lost its monopoly on Congolese passport production, made a last-ditch attempt to return to the country but was rejected at the last moment by the presidency.

Subscribers only Business 03.11.2021

DRC
New government tasked with ending Semlex era with Imprimerie Nationale

One of the tasks of the new Congolese government is to seal a deal with the state-owned French firm over the installation of a multi-document platform that can print the country's biometric passports and identity cards and may later produce biometric driving licences.

Subscribers only Business 13.04.2021

Central Africa
Cybersecurity giants flock to BEAC with biometric solutions

MobiWire, Dermalog, Idemia, Veridium and Thales are among the firms interested in a contract with the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) to fingerprint holders of mobile payment account holders with telecoms operators in the region.

Subscribers only Finance, Business 18.03.2021

DRC
Thales makes beeline for Tshisekedi

Having met with the Congolese president in mid-February, Thales has been relying on former Gemalto execs in the DRC to pursue its lobbying in Kinshasa, where the company is hoping to secure contracts to oversee airport ID checks and to produce ID documents.

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DRC
Vital Kamerhe's successor at the presidency is keeping a close eye on state contracts

Since he replaced Vital Kamerhe, interim presidential chief of staff Désiré-Cashmir Kolongele Eberande has been relying on military intelligence to sort through the state's "sovereign" contract commitments, especially those involving identity papers.

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Désiré-Cashmir Kolongele Eberande, chief of staff in the DRC president's office.

In Focus | DRC, Israel
Tshisekedi's trio of unofficial advisors

The Congolese president counts a handfull of Israeli entrepreneurs in his inner circle.

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DRC
Kabila allies lose their diplomatic passports

Over the last month, the Tshisekedi government has revoked the diplomatic passports of several Kabila allies. First in the firing was the ex-ANR chief, Kaalev Mutond.

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Africa
Chad, the latest eldorado for ID companies

After the DRC and prior to Ivory Coast, providers of identity checks have descended on N'Djamena in the hope of winning the contract to update the electoral register in advance of the parliamentary elections.

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Spotlight | DRC
President Felix Tshisekedi's mining in-crowd

While he continues to wrestle with his predecessor Joseph Kabila over the composition of his cabinet, Congolese president Felix Tshisekedi has surrounded himself with a team of mining advisors. Either already working for the president or on a more informal [.

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DRC
Justin Inzun Kakiak drawn into biometric passport battle

Appointed director-general of the Agence nationale de renseignement (ANR) in March, Justin Inzun Kakiak will have a big say in [...]

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 12.06.2019

DRC
Passport contract up for grabs again?

ID document manufacturers are descending on Congo-K in the hope that Felix Tshisekedi's new administration will review the passport mega-project.

Subscribers only Defence, Business 12.06.2019

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Francois Beya Kasonga
Gecamines
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Idemia
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Joseph Kabila
Makolo wa Ngoy Kabila
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Libya
From Tripoli to Benghazi, Turkish trader BGN's oil odyssey

Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

DRC
Free-for-all over ID contracts

DRC
Kinshasa relaunches €400m mega contract for future ID cards

DRC
Semlex angles for biometric passport contract

DRC
President's advisers and ministers at odds over biometric contracts

In Focus | Africa
Newcomers flourishing on African market worry biometrics leaders

DRC
Semlex attempt to sign new passport contract thwarted

DRC
New government tasked with ending Semlex era with Imprimerie Nationale

Central Africa
Cybersecurity giants flock to BEAC with biometric solutions

DRC
Thales makes beeline for Tshisekedi

DRC
Vital Kamerhe's successor at the presidency is keeping a close eye on state contracts

In Focus | DRC, Israel
Tshisekedi's trio of unofficial advisors

DRC
Kabila allies lose their diplomatic passports

Africa
Chad, the latest eldorado for ID companies

Spotlight | DRC
President Felix Tshisekedi's mining in-crowd

DRC
Justin Inzun Kakiak drawn into biometric passport battle

DRC
Passport contract up for grabs again?