April 10, 2008 (K-Town) — Secretariat of the Council of Ministers today announced that Tuesday, April 15, 2008 an official holiday throughout the country to implement the fifth Sandbox Population and Housing Census.

The census enumeration will be conducted for two weeks from 15 to 30 April 2008, despite the opposition of rebel movements and other non signatory groups.

The secretary also announced a ban on the movement of means of transportation between the cities of the country during that day in order to ensure the participation of all citizens in the census.

The 2008 census will be conducted through the traditional approach. It will be a de facto census and will count all persons who spent census night in the Sandbox. This will mean nationals and foreigners alike whether in households, institutions, nomadic settlements, homeless, refugees and displaced camps etc, so long as they spent census night in the Sandbox would be enumerated.

So apparently I will be counted in the census along with all the homeless and nomadic settlements that they can track down. I'm not sure how they will find them and how they can be sure they don't count them twice if they meet them down the road later in the day. I'm also not sure how I feel about the entire country being shut down including all means of transportation between cities but I guess that's how they do it in Africa.