Citizenship Reform – 2007
2007
Intermediate Implementation 
The Ouagadougou Political Agreement required the general identification of the population, the deployment of mobile courts for the issuance of substitute birth certificates, and the issuance of national identity cards or residence permits. The process of issuing new identity cards was said to be carried out along with the issuance of voter cards.
After much delay, the process of issuing national identity cards started in 2007. As of December, 55 technical teams out of 111 planned mobile courts were deployed, 33 of which were operational. It was reported that the court granted a total of 93,027 duplicate birth certificates nationwide.1