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'Really an Identity': Sputnik Africa Correspondent Talks to Residents of Niamey About AES Passport

18:08, 27 November 2024

Standardized AES documents "could simplify customs formalities and reduce border control formalities, promoting increased mobility of citizens and goods. This would also strengthen intra-confederal trade," Iba Karim, a former Burkinabe lawmaker, told Sputnik Africa earlier.

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A Sputnik Africa correspondent talked to residents of Niamey about the initiative to establish a biometric AES passport.

"In the sense that when we create a common document for the three countries of the AES, it's an identity. It's really an identity. We know where we come from; we know who we are, especially for the free movement of people within this federation," one of the locals said.