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Middle East & Africa

Identity verification
built for Djibouti Flag of 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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Country brief

How identity verification works in Djibouti.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
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
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Djibouti.

These are the supervisors a Djibouti verification flow has to answer to. One Didit hosted flow + one audit log covers every one of them — no separate integration per agency.
  • 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.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Djibouti database cross-check — composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

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.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Carte d'Identité Nationale
  • Passport — MRZ-parsed
  • Driver's Licence · Carte de Résidence
02 · Biometric

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.
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Stage 02Match the face. Prove it's a real person.
  • Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
  • Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
03 · AML

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.

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Stage 03Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.

04 · Registry

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.
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Stage 04Bind every check to one audited session

Bind every check to one audited session — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Djibouti document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential — flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Authoritative datasets

Civil-registry and AML coverage for Djibouti.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against — civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
Compliant by design

Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.

We open the local subsidiaries, secure the licenses, run the penetration tests, earn the certifications, and align with every new regulation. To ship verifications in a new country, flip a toggle. 220+ countries live, audited and pen-tested every quarter — the only identity provider an EU member-state government has formally called safer than in-person verification.
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EU financial sandbox
Tesoro · SEPBLAC · BdE
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security · 2026
SOC 2 · Type I
AICPA · 2026
iBeta Level 1 PAD
NIST / NIAP · 2026
GDPR
EU 2016/679
DORA
EU 2022/2554
MiCA
EU 2023/1114
AMLD6 · eIDAS 2.0
EU-aligned by design
FAQ

Common questions about Djibouti.

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