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Cameroon
Cameroon launched a new biometric national ID card in 2025 under a 15-year contract with Germany's Augentic. CEMAC's central bank has only studied a CBDC.
Digital ID · Goal 16.9
Digital ID in Cameroon
- Program
- New biometric national ID card (DGSN / Augentic)
- Status
- No government digital ID
- National ID card
- ID card voluntary
- Biometrics
- Yes
- Law
- Presidential decree, 28 Feb 2025
Online pre-enrolment opened 17 Feb 2025, biometric capture began 24 Feb, and the first cards were issued 3 Mar 2025 after a 28 Feb presidential decree. The DGSN contracted Augentic for 15 years (reported at US$120 million). The chip stores fingerprints and facial data; voter registration requires the card. A Far North rollout began in August 2025. No mobile or digital ID was found.
Digital money · Goal 8.10
Central bank digital currency
- Status
- Research
The BEAC (central bank of the six-country CEMAC zone) set up a working group on a central bank digital currency in September 2023. No launch date or issuance decision has been published in the sources found.
On the record
What has happened, newest first
- 2025-08-02Rolling it out
The biometric ID programme began in the Far North region. IDTechWire ↗
- 2025-02-24Rolling it out
Biometric capture for the new national ID card began. IT Edge News Africa ↗
UN and WHO
How Cameroon has voted
- WHO
- Accepted the 2024 rule changes
- Pandemic Agreement (May 2025)
- No recorded objection
- Migration compact (Dec 2018)
- Voted yes
- Paris climate deal
- Party
- SDG Index 2026
- 57.6 · rank 135 of 169
- Progress reports to the UN (VNRs)
- 3
Sovereignty score
How the 0 adds up
- 0No tracked actions either way.
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Country research checked Oct 2026. Tracker data checked 11 Oct 2026. Every claim links to its source.