Identity verification
built for Djibouti 
National ID Card and Passport on one session, screened against Djiboutian regulatory watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.




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How identity verification works in Djibouti.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Djiboutian identity fraud: port and logistics corridor fraud exploiting the high transshipment volumes through the Port of Djibouti, cross-border identity document forgery across the porous borders with Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia, and AML pressure on the foreign-currency and remittance channels tied to the large expatriate military and logistics workforce. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Law 133/AN/11/6ème L on AML/CFT (Djibouti, 2011)
- Banque Centrale de Djibouti KYC and due-diligence directives
- MENAFATF mutual-evaluation framework
- ESAAMLG regional AML/CFT standards
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Djibouti.
BCD
Banque Centrale de Djibouti — central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, financial institutions, and money-transfer operators in Djibouti.
CRF
Cellule de Renseignement Financier — Djibouti's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives and analyses Suspicious Transaction Reports under Law 133/AN/11/6ème L on AML/CFT.
MENAFATF
Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force — the FATF-style regional body to which Djibouti is associated. Mutual evaluations and regional standards guide AML/CFT compliance.
ESAAMLG
Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group — regional body that also engages Djibouti on its East Africa trade and remittance exposures.
ONARS
Office National des Réfugiés et Apatrides — national refugee and stateless-person authority. Administers identity documentation for Djibouti's large refugee and stateless populations.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Carte d'Identité Nationale, Passport (MRZ-parsed), Driver's Licence, and Carte de Résidence for foreign residents.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
- Carte d'Identité Nationale
- Passport — MRZ-parsed
- Driver's Licence · Carte de Résidence
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 Djibouti watchlists:
- Djibouti Presidential Police — PEP Level 1 senior security and executive officials.
- UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions — Horn of Africa designations including Somalia and Eritrea nexus entries affecting Djibouti transshipment corridors.
- OFAC SDN List — designations with Djibouti and Horn of Africa nexus.
- MENAFATF — Middle East and North Africa FATF-style regional body watchlist.
- ESAAMLG — Eastern and Southern Africa AML Group regional watchlist.
- FATF — Financial Action Task Force global standards and monitoring watchlist.
- Interpol East Africa — international law enforcement cooperation register.
- Basel AML Index — country-risk scoring for Djibouti.
- EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List — designations covering the Horn of Africa.
- African Development Bank — debarment and sanctions register.
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.
Bind every check to one audited session.
- There is no public government database validation API for Djibouti currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the Ministry of Interior civil registry does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Bind every check to one audited session — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Djibouti document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Djibouti.
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Common questions about Djibouti.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
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