Prorogation des cartes d’identité biométriques CEDEAO : le projet de loi examiné ce mardi en plénière à l'Assemblée nationale
The Senegalese government is preparing to adjust the renewal schedule for ECOWAS biometric identity cards to address significant operational and logistical constraints. Already adopted in committee, draft law no. 21/2026 will be submitted to the National Assembly in plenary session this Tuesday to authorize an exceptional extension of the validity period of expiring identity documents.
Until now, Law No. 2016-09 of March 14, 2016, set the validity period for these documents at ten years. However, the Minister of the Interior and Public Security, Mouhamadou Makhtar Cisse, indicated to parliamentarians that the strict application of this period is hampered by major technological constraints and the practical impossibility of simultaneously renewing a massive stock of identity documents. The legislation therefore introduces an exception clause in cases of force majeure to avoid any legal vacuum or administrative deadlock for citizens.
At the heart of this restructuring is the management of the contract between the State of Senegal and the Malaysian operator Iris, in place since 2005, for the production of the cards. The latest amendment, signed on April 29, 2026, is set to expire on May 21, 2027, leaving too little time to meet the full demand.
To date, approximately 700,000 biometric identity cards urgently need to be renewed in the very near future. The government's strategy calls for priority and phased processing as the expiration dates approach. According to the minister, this exceptional extension should not exceed one year, to allow time to finalize production.
During the preparatory work, the Commission on Laws, Decentralisation, Labour and Human Rights, however, demanded strict regulation of this measure, advocating for a rigorous definition of the concept of "force majeure" and a cap on the duration of the extension in order to prevent any risk of successive extensions.
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