Identity verification
built for Côte d’Ivoire 
Carte Nationale d'Identité and Passport on one session, screened against CENTIF-CI sanctions lists and West African GIABA watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Côte d’Ivoire.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Ivorian identity fraud: synthetic-CNI and deepfake attacks targeting Wave, MTN Mobile Money, and BCEAO-licensed e-money operators, national identity card forgery across legacy paper and current biometric formats, and AML pressure on cross-border remittance corridors under CENTIF-CI and GIABA mutual-evaluation requirements. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Loi Uniforme GIABA/WAEMU relative à la lutte contre le blanchiment de capitaux et le financement du terrorisme
- BCEAO Instruction n°008-05-2015 sur la monnaie électronique
- Loi n°2013-450 relative à la protection des données à caractère personnel
- Règlement Général de la Commission Bancaire UMOA
- Ordonnance n°2012-293 relative aux Télécommunications
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Côte d’Ivoire.
BCEAO
Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest — central bank and financial supervisor across the WAEMU zone. Supervises banks, electronic-money issuers, microfinance institutions, and payment service providers in Côte d'Ivoire under Instruction n°008-05-2015.
CENTIF-CI
Cellule Nationale de Traitement des Informations Financières — Côte d'Ivoire's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Déclarations d'Opérations Suspectes from obliged entities and coordinates with GIABA on regional AML/CFT enforcement.
Direction Générale du Trésor
Direction Générale du Trésor et de la Comptabilité Publique — oversees the broader Ivorian financial system, public finances, and coordinates with CENTIF-CI on obliged-entity compliance.
ARTCI
Autorité Nationale de Régulation des Télécommunications de Côte d'Ivoire — governs digital services, electronic signatures, and internet service providers. Issues the regulatory framework for e-commerce and digital identity.
CNIL-CI
Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés — Côte d'Ivoire's data-protection authority. Governs how identity verification data on Ivorian residents is captured, stored, and disclosed.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Carte Nationale d'Identité (CNI, biometric format), Passeport Ivoirien (with the chip read on e-Passports), Permis de Conduire, Titre de Séjour for foreign residents, ECOWAS biometric card for citizens of other ECOWAS member states, and UNHCR refugee cards.
- Returns the name, document number, date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
- Carte Nationale d'Identité (CNI)
- Passeport Ivoirien — chip read on e-Passport
- Permis de Conduire · Titre de Séjour · Carte CEDEAO · Carte de Réfugié
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.
Didit screens the user's name against the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus every Ivorian regulatory and West African regional watchlist:
- House of Representatives of Côte d'Ivoire — PEP register — Members of the National Assembly and senior legislative-branch officials (PEP Level 1).
- National Assembly and Senate of Côte d'Ivoire — PEP registers — legislative-branch Politically Exposed Persons.
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Côte d'Ivoire — PEP register — senior executive-branch Politically Exposed Persons (PEP Level 2).
- Ministry of Finance of Côte d'Ivoire — PEP register — financial-sector executive-branch PEPs (PEP Level 2).
- Ministry of Justice of Côte d'Ivoire — enforcement register — domestic regulatory and enforcement actions (PEP Level 2).
- Constitutional Council of Côte d'Ivoire — PEP register — senior constitutional-branch officials (PEP Level 2).
- National Commission for the Restoration of Democracy — political-transition officials — transitional PEPs.
- SIVES — Special Interest Vessel register — maritime enforcement signals for Côte d'Ivoire.
- Le Journal International — adverse-media signals — investigative press for negative-news screening.
- CENTIF-CI — enforcement register — Côte d'Ivoire's FIU designations and enforcement actions.
- GIABA — Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa — regional FATF-style body watchlist covering 16 ECOWAS member states.
- UN Security Council — Consolidated Sanctions List — global multilateral sanctions transposed by CENTIF-CI.
- OFAC SDN — Specially Designated Nationals List — US Treasury designations with West Africa coverage.
- AU Commission — African Union sanctions registry — continental political and economic sanctions decisions.
- Interpol Africa — criminal-notice registry — cross-border wanted persons and criminal diffusions.
- Basel AML Index — Côte d'Ivoire risk signals — country-level risk context updated annually.
- ECOWAS — regional enforcement register — Economic Community of West African States cross-border enforcement.
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.
Cross-check the identity at scale.
Côte d'Ivoire does not currently expose a public government consumer API open to third-party integrators — no public database validation API exists for the Office National de l'État Civil's CNI register.
- The OCR + biometric + AML stack is the authoritative CENTIF-CI- and CNIL-CI-compliant path today: the CNI document number is OCR-parsed from the card, the face is matched against the document portrait, and the AML stage screens the extracted name against every Ivorian regulatory and GIABA regional watchlist.
- For phone, email, and address enrichment, pair the session with global Database Validation services that already work in Côte d'Ivoire today.
- A direct ONEC authoritative-source lookup ships as BCEAO Instruction n°008-05-2015 and CNIL-CI-compliant data partners onboard — Enterprise customers can talk to sales to wire it into their workflow.
Cross-check the identity at scale — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Côte d’Ivoire document Didit accepts.
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