Uganda, April 17 -- An estimated 18 million Ugandans remain unregistered with the National Identification & Registration Authority (NIRA), despite a national population of over 45 million.

This information was revealed by NIRA's Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, Mr Kasumba Stephen Robert, on Tuesday at a media breakfast dialogue on civil registration.

"As of now in our register, we have registered over 27 million people fully. But the Uganda Bureau of Statistics is saying we have over 45 million Ugandans. When we subtract, we realise that the balance was not registered," he said.

To address this, NIRA plans to reach every village, island, and hard-to-reach area like Karamoja. Their goal is to register births, deaths, and marriages, en...