Spec sheet ABT-01 · Updated 24 October 2026
Border technology in Africa, from public records
Which border systems African states use, who supplies them according to official records, the standards behind them and what auditors have found.
Systems and standards
- API and PNR in Africa
What Advance Passenger Information and Passenger Name Record data are, what UN resolutions require, and which African states have UN support records.
- E-gates in Africa
Public records on automated border gates at African airports: Nigeria's rollout, South Africa's airport eGates and Sierra Leone's Lungi equipment.
- E-visa and ETA platforms in Africa
How many African countries offer e-visas, which run ETAs, and what Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa record about their platforms.
- ICAO PKD and ePassports in Africa
The 22 African states listed as ICAO PKD participants, their joining dates, and how the PKD lets border officers check an ePassport chip.
- IOM MIDAS in Africa
What IOM's MIDAS border management information system does, who owns the data, who funds it, and where IOM records show it in use in Africa.
- UN Security Council resolution 2396 and African states
What resolution 2396 of 21 December 2017 requires on API, PNR, watchlists and biometrics, and the UN records on African states putting it in place.
- What is border management technology?
Plain definitions of the systems African states use at borders: ePassports and the ICAO PKD, MIDAS, API and PNR, e-visas, ETAs and e-gates.
Countries
- Ethiopia border technology
Ethiopia's e-visa since 2017, the IOM MIDAS border system and its two phases, and Immigration and Citizenship Services records, with sources.
- Ghana border technology
What public records show about Ghana's e-gates at Kotoka International Airport, the Ghana Card at the border and the Thales e-Immigration work.
- Kenya border technology
How Kenya's Electronic Travel Authorisation started in January 2024, the US$30 fee, who is exempt and what changed in 2025, with sources.
- Morocco border technology
Morocco's eVisa on acces-maroc.ma since July 2022 and the automatic passport gates at Mohammed V airport since March 2025, with sources.
- Nigeria border technology
Nigeria's ICAO PKD membership, IOM MIDAS, e-gates, the e-visa and landing card, and NIS border system training, from public records.
- South Africa border technology
South Africa's Electronic Travel Authorisation, EMCS 2.0 facial verification, airport eGates, the ABIS contract and the audit findings on it.
Contracts and records
- Audit findings on border technology in Africa
Official audit and forensic findings on border-linked technology contracts in Africa, with dates and responses, starting with South Africa's ABIS.
- How to read a border technology contract
A guide to the records behind border technology deals in Africa: who procured, who was awarded, scope, value, cessions, extensions, penalties and audits.