Madar (Ouagadougou) - Burkina Faso President Captain Ibrahim Traore on Wednesday, 11 November 2026 officially launched in Ouagadougou the nationwide mass registration of the population in the unique identifier register, according to Anadolu Agency.
Traore urged citizens to take part, saying the system will reveal the real size of the population and make it easier for people to access essential services, the agency said.
Digital Transition, Posts and Electronic Communications Minister Aminata Zerbo/Sabane said identification is first and foremost a matter of knowing the population and organising the state.
According to the agency, a pilot phase before the launch registered more than 16,000 people in urban and rural areas, and 966 registration kits will be deployed gradually to mapped centres across the country.
Mobile teams will reach internally displaced people, the elderly, people with disabilities and people deprived of their liberty, the same source said.
The minister reassured citizens about data confidentiality and system security, saying it was designed by Burkinabe engineers and is hosted in state data centres. The system aims to prevent the same citizen from being registered more than once and to ensure the reliability of the information the state holds on service users.
