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Indangamuntu National ID, Passport and Driver's Licence on one session, screened against Rwandan regulatory watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Rwanda.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Rwandan identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on the wave of cross-border payments and remittance corridors, Indangamuntu card forgery, and AML pressure on regional trade and remittance corridors with Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the DRC. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Law 075/2019 (AML/CFT)
  • Law 058/2021 (personal data protection and privacy)
  • NBR Regulation on AML/CFT
  • Kigali International Financial Centre regulatory framework
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Rwanda.

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

    National Bank of Rwanda — central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, payment service providers, microfinance institutions, and electronic-money issuers.

  • CMA Rwanda

    Capital Market Authority — capital-markets supervisor for licensed brokers, fund managers, and investment advisors. Hosts the Kigali International Financial Centre regime.

  • FIC Rwanda

    Financial Intelligence Centre — Rwanda's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under Law 075/2019 on the prevention and punishment of money laundering and terrorism financing.

  • NIDA

    National Identification Agency — issuer of the Indangamuntu National ID and the 16-digit National Identification Number. Maintains the authoritative national identity register.

  • MINICT

    Ministry of Information Communication Technology and Innovation — administers Law 058/2021 on the protection of personal data and privacy.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Rwanda 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.

  • Indangamuntu National ID (with the 16-digit National Identification Number parsed), Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), and Driver's Licence.
  • Returns the name, NIDA number, date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Indangamuntu National ID
  • Passport — chip read on e-Passport
  • Driver's Licence
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 Rwandan watchlists:

  • House of Representatives of Rwanda — PEP Level 1 elected officials.
  • National Electoral Commission — PEP Level 2 electoral authority officials.
  • Rwanda National Police — PEP Level 2 law enforcement officials.
  • Office of the Prime Minister — PEP Level 2 executive officials.
  • Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning — PEP Level 2 senior finance officials.
  • Ministry of Defense — PEP Level 2 senior defense officials.
  • Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) — PEP Level 2 regulatory officials.
  • Rwanda Development Board (RDB) — PEP Level 2 development authority officials.
  • National Security Council — PEP Level 2 security officials.
  • Kigali City Council — PEP Level 4 municipal officials.
  • Rwanda Office of the Ombudsman (RWOMBUD) — ombudsperson enforcement register.
  • Rwanda Ministry of Foreign Affairs — Warnings and diplomatic designations.

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 Rwanda currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the NIDA 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 Rwanda 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 Rwanda.

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
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