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NIRA staffing crisis leaves millions of IDs gathering dust

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Kampala, Uganda | URN | The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) is grappling with a severe service-delivery crisis. It is emerging the NIRA is holding about 5.4 million newly printed national identity cards that citizens have yet to collect. The backlog, disclosed to Parliament on Monday, threatens access to essential services ranging from banking … The post NIRA staffing crisis leaves millions
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