Eritrea Is Preparing to Distribute New Eritrean Identification Cards

Eritrea Is Preparing to Distribute New Eritrean Identification Cards

Eritrea is preparing to distribute new identification cards, several sources have informed Madote. The Eritrean embassy in Australia seems to confirm this after announcing they have suspended issuing Eritrean IDs until they are upgraded.

"The Eritrean ID is getting upgraded. Hence any process of Eritrean ID is suspended for the time being. Updated information with relevant forms will be posted soon."

According to a source, the new digitized ID card will be a little bigger than a U.S. driver licence, will feature a greenish colored picture in the front, and will have the card holder's fingerprint on the back.

If these unconfirmed descriptions are true, then this is a major security improvement from the previous ID card which was criticized for being relatively easy to forge, which resulted in many African migrants — mostly from Ethiopia — using fake Eritrean IDs to claim asylum in the West.

Despite being aware of African migrants masquerading as Eritreans when entering the West, UNHCR officials continue to include these African migrants as Eritreans in their statistics to purposely inflate Eritrea's migrant figures in order to demonize the Eritrean government.

Eritrean model Bruck Tekle sporting an "ERI. ID" hat — a hat for Eritreans by Eritreans

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