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Namibia introduces biometric passports

Source: Xinhuanet News, 19/02/2018

WINDHOEK, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Namibia will from Jan. 8, 2018 issue
biometric or electronic passports, an official in the home affairs
ministry said Friday.
A biometric passport is a highly secure travel document or e-passport
that has an embedded electronic microprocessor chip which contains
biometric information that can be used to authenticate the identity of
the passport holder.
The announcement was made in Windhoek by the acting permanent secretary
Nehemia Nghishekwa.
He said the ministry will issue ordinary, diplomatic and official
biometric passports at the same cost of 200 Namibian dollars (about 16
U.S. dollars).
Nghishekwa said the move to introduce biometric passports was in line
with the International Civil Aviation Organization`s requirements.
`However, the current machine-readable passports - diplomatic and
official - will run concurrently until they outlive their lifespan of
up to five years,` Nghishekwa said.
Namibia joins 120 other countries that had by July 2017 introduced the
e-passport.
There are about 13 African countries among them Botswana and Zimbabwe
that introduced the e-passport in 2017.

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