Identity verification
built for Botswana 
Botswana Omang National ID and Passport on one session, screened against NBFIRA, BoB, and global AML watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
Trusted by 2,000+ organizations worldwide.
How identity verification works in Botswana.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Botswana identity fraud: synthetic-ID and deepfake attacks targeting the growing digital-banking and mobile-money sector, Omang card forgery at border crossings, and cross-border AML risk on the South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Zambia corridors. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Financial Intelligence Act 2009
- Corruption and Economic Crime Act 1994
- Data Protection Act 2018
- National Payments Systems Act 2018
- ESAAMLG Mutual Evaluation recommendations
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Botswana.
BoB
Bank of Botswana — central bank and prudential supervisor for commercial banks, payment service providers, and foreign-exchange dealers.
NBFIRA
Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority — supervises insurers, pension funds, securities firms, and microlenders. NBFIRA-supervised entities must comply with AML/CFT obligations under the Financial Intelligence Act 2009.
FIA
Financial Intelligence Agency — Botswana's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers the Financial Intelligence Act 2009 and receives Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs).
DCEC
Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime — investigates and prosecutes corruption and financial-crime offences under the Corruption and Economic Crime Act 1994.
BOCRA
Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority — oversees electronic communications and data-protection standards that apply to digital identity services operating in Botswana.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Omang National Identity Card, Passport (MRZ parsed), driving licence, and residence permit for foreign residents.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, nationality.
- Omang National Identity Card
- Passport — MRZ parsed
- Driving Licence · Residence Permit
Match the face. Prove it's a real person..
Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.
- Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
- Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows — user turns or blinks.
- Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
- Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.
1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists — plus Botswana watchlists:
- Botswana National Assembly — Members of Parliament (PEP Level 2) and senior executive officials.
- High Commission of Botswana in New Delhi — diplomatic officials (PEP Level 1) in Botswana's foreign-service network.
- Botswana Defense Force — senior military officers (PEP Level 2).
- Ministry of Finance — Botswana — senior ministry officials (PEP Level 2) with financial oversight.
- Ministry of Health — Botswana — senior ministry officials (PEP Level 2).
- NBFIRA — enforcement warnings — Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority supervisory actions.
- UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions — active multilateral designations covering Botswana-linked entities.
- OFAC SDN List — US Treasury Specially Designated Nationals with Botswana nexus.
- ESAAMLG — Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group regional risk signals.
- Interpol Southern Africa — wanted-persons and fugitive notices relevant to Southern Africa.
- Basel AML Index — country risk score and associated risk signals.
Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.
Database validation.
- There is no public government database validation API for Botswana currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the Department of Civil and National Registration does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Database validation — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Botswana document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Botswana.
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Common questions about Botswana.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
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