As a refugee in Cameroon, Shelley Teckombi Yazembrou struggled for nearly seven years to open a bank account, or even move around freely, simply because she did not have a national identity card.
“It isn’t as good as Cameroonian nationality, but I’m still grateful,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “The card is a form of empowerment, so they can have access to jobs and financial institutions,” he said, adding that Central Africans with the ID can also set up businesses easily, no longer needing a Cameroonian intermediary to help them do so.More than 1 billion people globally - 40% of whom live in Africa - do not have official proof of identity, greatly limiting their ability to access basic public and financial services, according to the World Bank.
About half the refugees in Cameroon - or adults over the age of 18 - are eligible for the new biometric IDs, according to local officials. Across Africa, more governments are issuing digital IDs that are necessary for everything from opening a bank account to buying a mobile SIM card to getting a passport.
Cameroon’s constitution guarantees data protection rights, but there is no data protection law. A privacy bill is currently being drafted, and refugees “are not safe as long as this is not guaranteed and enforced”, Ndongmo added.
Propaganda
Digital ID is the life changer for the free world to be totally enslaved.. Many saw the beginning w/ jab pass [slave pass?] No obedience, no service /no job etc.. A [manufactured] food / energy crisis, will have the ID deciding who gets food & who doesnt..
They definitely hate them.
Thank god this ridiculous article is behind a paywall which will prevent the vast majority from reading this nonsense. Pretty sure refugees in Cameroon have alot higher priorities than finding Digital ID a 'life changer'🙄🙄🤦♀️😂
And now here comes the stories of Digital ID and how good they are .. predictive conditioning! Another conspiracy theory coming true!