{"id":36902,"date":"2018-02-01T07:01:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T07:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tanzania-rolls-out-electronic-eac-passports\/"},"modified":"2018-02-01T07:00:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T07:00:50","slug":"tanzania-rolls-out-electronic-eac-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tanzania-rolls-out-electronic-eac-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania rolls out electronic EAC passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The launch on Wednesday was witnessed by President John Magufuli who said the e-passport would bring lasting solution to a number of challenges associated with immigration services in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The e-passport is embedded with a machine readable computer chip which contains the holder\u2019s biometric information on a tamper-proof page, and has been touted as a major step in curbing fraud and easing clearance at international airports where e-readers are installed.<\/p>\n<p>Tanzania becomes the second EAC member country to roll out the e-passports after Kenya which launched the documents in September last year, 17 years after discussions to develop the Community document began.<\/p>\n<p>The 35th EAC Council of Ministers meeting in last April directed member states to start issuing the regional e-passport by January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The new technology to print the e-passport in Tanzania was installed by US-based HID company with support from the government of Ireland and cost about $58 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23904 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pass-7cc35.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania has rolled out the new electronic East African Community (EAC) passports to replace the existing national documents, set to be phased out by January 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2902],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-the-eastafrican"],"bylines":[{"id":2902,"name":"The EastAfrican","slug":"the-eastafrican","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2902,"name":"The EastAfrican","slug":"the-eastafrican","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36902"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36902"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}