Identity verification
built for Mauritania 
Mauritanian National Identity Card and Passport on one session, screened against GIABA regional watchlists and global sanctions — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Mauritania.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Mauritanian identity fraud: synthetic-ID and deepfake attacks targeting BCM-licensed mobile-money operators in a market with high mobile-phone penetration but limited legacy infrastructure, CNIB template forgery during the ANRPTS biometric rollout, and AML pressure from GIABA-tracked terror-financing networks active in the Sahel region under FATF and UN Security Council designations. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Law No. 2018-013 on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing
- Banking Act (Loi 2007-025 of 2007) — Banque Centrale de Mauritanie
- GIABA 40 recommendations (FATF-style regional body for West Africa)
- UN Security Council Resolution 1373 (counter-terrorism financing)
- FATF 40 recommendations
- ECOWAS financial crime cooperation framework
Who supervises identity verification in Mauritania.
BCM
Banque Centrale de Mauritanie — central bank and primary financial supervisor for banks, microfinance institutions, and mobile-money operators under the Banking Act (Loi 2007-025 of 2007).
CENTIF
Cellule de Traitement des Informations Financières — Mauritania's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law No. 2018-013 on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing; receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.
ARSAM
Agence de Régulation et de Surveillance des marchés des Assurances et de la Microfinance — regulates insurance and microfinance institutions; enforces AML compliance in the microfinance sector.
ANRPTS
Agence Nationale du Registre des Populations et des Titres Sécurisés — national civil registry authority. Issues the biometric CNIB and passport; maintains the population register.
GIABA
Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa — the FATF-style regional body for West Africa. Mauritania is a member; GIABA mutual evaluations and typologies apply to BCM-supervised institutions.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Mauritanian biometric CNIB, Passeport Biométrique (with NFC chip read), Permis de Conduire, and Titre de Séjour.
- Returns: full name, national identification number, date of birth, place of birth, nationality, expiry.
- Carte Nationale d'Identité Biométrique (CNIB)
- Passeport Biométrique — NFC chip read
- Permis de Conduire · Titre de Séjour
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 Mauritania watchlists:
- CENTIF — Mauritanian FIU designations — national AML and counter-terrorism financing designations under Law No. 2018-013.
- Banque Centrale de Mauritanie — enforcement actions — regulatory sanctions on banks and payment institutions.
- National Assembly of Mauritania — PEP register — senior legislative-branch Politically Exposed Persons.
- GIABA — West Africa regional designated entities — Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa typologies and named persons.
- UN Security Council — Consolidated List — ISIL/Al-Qaida (1267/1989/2253) and Sahel-linked terror designations.
- OFAC SDN List — West Africa and Sahel designations — US Treasury asset-freeze measures targeting terror-financing networks active in the Sahel.
- EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List — Sahel/Mali sanctions regime measures with Mauritanian relevance.
- FATF Global Network — Mauritania mutual evaluation — high-risk indicators from the FATF assessment process.
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.
- There is no public government database validation API for Mauritania currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the ANRPTS population register does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
The OCR + biometric + AML stack is the authoritative BCM- and CENTIF-compliant path today: the national identification number is OCR-parsed from the CNIB, the face is matched against the portrait, and the AML stage screens the extracted name against every Mauritanian and GIABA regional watchlist. Enterprise customers can talk to sales about registry-linkage options as BCM-authorised data partners onboard.
Cross-check the identity at scale — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Mauritania document Didit accepts.
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Common questions about Mauritania.
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