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Malian National ID Card and Passport on one session, screened against GIABA West Africa regional watchlists and UN Security Council Mali sanctions — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Mali.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Malian identity fraud: synthetic-ID and deepfake attacks targeting BCEAO-supervised mobile-money operators in a market where mobile wallets are the primary financial access point for rural populations, ID Card template forgery and duplicate NINA registration during the biometric rollout, and AML pressure from active UN Security Council Mali sanctions designations and GIABA-tracked Sahel terror-financing networks. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Law No. 2016-008 on the Prevention and Repression of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in Mali
  • BCEAO Instruction No. 01/2006/SP on electronic money
  • WAEMU AML/CFT directives applicable to BCEAO-supervised institutions
  • UN Security Council Resolution 2374 (2017) — Mali sanctions regime
  • GIABA 40 recommendations (FATF-style regional body for West Africa)
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Mali.

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

  • BCEAO

    Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest — regional central bank for the WAEMU zone including Mali. Supervises banks and payment institutions; issues authorisation and prudential standards for digital financial services.

  • CENTIF Mali

    Cellule Nationale de Traitement des Informations Financières — Mali's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law No. 2016-008 on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing; receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.

  • CREMPF

    Conseil Régional de l'Épargne Publique et des Marchés Financiers — WAEMU regional capital-markets regulator supervising securities dealers and investment funds operating in Mali.

  • GIABA

    Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa — the FATF-style regional body for West Africa. Mali is a member; GIABA mutual evaluations and typologies apply to BCEAO-supervised institutions.

  • UNSC 2374 Committee

    United Nations Security Council 2374 Sanctions Committee — administers the Mali sanctions regime (asset freeze, travel ban) under UNSCR 2374 of 2017 and subsequent measures. Applies directly to all obliged entities in Mali.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

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

Capture and read the ID.

Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • Malian National ID Card (NINA), Passeport Biométrique (with NFC chip read), Permis de Conduire, and Titre de Séjour.
  • Returns: full name, NINA (Numéro d'Identification Nationale), date of birth, place of birth, nationality, expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Carte Nationale d'Identité (NINA card)
  • Passeport Biométrique — NFC chip read
  • Permis de Conduire · Titre de Séjour
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 Mali watchlists:

  • CENTIF Mali — FIU designations — national AML and counter-terrorism financing designations under Law No. 2016-008.
  • UN Security Council 2374 Committee — asset-freeze and travel-ban designations under the Mali sanctions regime (UNSCR 2374/2017).
  • UN Security Council — Consolidated List — ISIL/Al-Qaida (1267/1989/2253) and Sahel-linked designations (JNIM, GSIM).
  • OFAC SDN List — West Africa and Sahel — US Treasury asset-freeze measures targeting terror-financing networks in Mali.
  • EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List — Mali sanctions regime measures under EU Council regulations.
  • Australian National Security — listed terrorist organisations active in the Malian Sahel.
  • GIABA — West Africa regional designated entities — Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa typologies and named persons.
  • National Assembly of Mali — PEP register — senior legislative-branch Politically Exposed Persons.

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

Cross-check the identity at scale.

  • There is no public government database validation API for Mali currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the DGEC-RM population register does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.

The OCR + biometric + AML stack is the authoritative BCEAO- and CENTIF-compliant path today: the NINA is OCR-parsed from the national ID card, the face is matched against the portrait, and the AML stage screens the extracted name against every Malian and GIABA regional watchlist. Enterprise customers can talk to sales about registry-linkage options as BCEAO-authorised data partners onboard.

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Stage 04Cross-check the identity at scale

Cross-check the identity at scale — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Mali 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 Mali.

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.
aml-screening

AML lists screened in Mali

1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus the country's regulatory watchlists and PEP registries.

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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
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