{"id":235292,"date":"2026-06-04T04:51:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-nir-clarifies-osd-partnership\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T04:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:51:59","slug":"liberia-nir-clarifies-osd-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-nir-clarifies-osd-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Nir Clarifies OSD Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Monrovia \u2014 The National Identification Registry (NIR) has clarified that Liberia&#8217;s partnership with Austrian firm OSD is a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) designed to modernize the country&#8217;s National Biometric Identification System (NBIS), without compromising national data sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">At a press conference on June 2, NIR Communications Director Daniel Sloh Sargbe addressed concerns about the agreement, emphasizing that all Liberian biometric data remains under the exclusive ownership and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606030388.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 The National Identification Registry (NIR) has clarified that Liberia&#8217;s partnership with Austrian firm OSD is a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) designed to modernize the country&#8217;s National Biometric Identification System (NBIS), without compromising national data sovereignty. At a press conference on June 2, NIR Communications Director Daniel Sloh Sargbe addressed concerns about the agreement, emphasizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":235293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,12020,4712,1107,257,32962,36274,6020,254],"class_list":["post-235292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-clarifies","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-nir","tag-osd","tag-partnership","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}