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Gabon's Electronic National ID Card (CNIE) & NIP Rollout

Gabon's chip-based electronic national ID card (CNIE) requires a 14-character biometric Personal Identification Number (NIP). Nationwide assignment began in Greater Libreville on 3 April 2024, building on the IBOGA biometric-registry effort under way since 2013, before expanding province by province through 2025.

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🏛️ GovernanceDigital government
Scale🌍 National

📖 Terms in this entry: Civic participation platform · Digital identity · Open data

Sources

↗ Ministère de l'Intérieur (authority)Official updates dashboard detailing ongoing civil registry tools.
↗ Gabonreview (press)News coverage of the project.

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🇬🇼 SIREC Digital Civil Registry · Bissau Two 2024-25 African digital-ID pushes: Gabon's chip CNIE began in Libreville, Guinea-Bissau's SIREC digitised birth registers in Bissau. 🇨🇩 RDC-Pass National Digital ID · Kinshasa Central Africa's other recent biometric ID: DR Congo's RDC-Pass launched from Kinshasa in 2026, two years after Gabon's CNIE began. 🇳🇬 Lagos State Residents Register and the LAG-ID Card · Lagos Both enrol residents biometrically for a card: Lagos's LASRRA since 2011, Gabon's CNIE assignment starting in Libreville in 2024.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Gabon's Electronic National ID Card (CNIE) & NIP Rollout” — Libreville, Gabon. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/libreville-identity-portal/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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