Zambian govt doesn’t want to see hungry citizens enroll for digital ID

Funds which the Zambian government had budgeted for the country’s digital ID project is now being channelled into efforts aimed at responding to a drought emergency orchestrating hunger in the Southern African country.

This update was given recently to the country’s lawmakers by the Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Jacob Mwiimbu, who is quoted by ITWeb as saying that the $80 million budgeted for the digital ID scheme will now be spent on addressing the effects of the …

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