Identity verification
built for Senegal 
National Identity Card and Passport on one session, screened against CENTIF sanctions lists and West African GIABA watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Senegal.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Senegalese identity fraud: synthetic-CNIB and deepfake attacks targeting Wave and Orange Money mobile-money onboarding flows, national ID card forgery across the legacy paper and current CNIB biometric formats, and AML pressure on West African cross-border remittance corridors under CENTIF 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°2008-12 relative à la protection des données personnelles et au GAINDE
- Commission Bancaire UMOA Dispositif Prudentiel
- Ministry of Economy — Consolidated Sanctions List
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Senegal.
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 Senegal under Instruction n°008-05-2015.
CENTIF
Cellule Nationale de Traitement des Informations Financières — Senegal's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Déclarations d'Opérations Suspectes (DOS) from obliged entities and coordinates with GIABA on regional AML/CFT enforcement.
Commission Bancaire UMOA
Commission Bancaire de l'Union Monétaire Ouest-Africaine — prudential supervisor for banking groups across the WAEMU zone, including all banks and microfinance institutions operating in Senegal.
CDP
Commission Nationale de Protection des Données Personnelles — Senegal's data-protection authority. Governs every identity verification on Senegalese residents under the national data-protection framework.
DGID
Direction Générale des Impôts et Domaines — tax authority operating the NINEA (Numéro d'Identification National des Entreprises et des Associations) registry used in KYB and corporate onboarding flows.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Carte Nationale d'Identité Biométrique (CNIB), Passeport Sénégalais (with the chip read on e-Passports), Permis de Conduire, Titre de Séjour for foreign residents, Carte d'Électeur, and the ECOWAS biometric card for citizens of other ECOWAS member states.
- Returns the name, document number, date of birth, place of issue, and expiry.
- Carte Nationale d'Identité Biométrique (CNIB)
- Passeport Sénégalais — chip read on e-Passport
- Permis de Conduire · Titre de Séjour · Carte d'Électeur · Carte CEDEAO
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 Senegalese and West African regional watchlist:
- National Assembly of Senegal — PEP register — Members of the National Assembly and senior legislative-branch officials (PEP Level 1).
- Ministry of Economy and Finance Senegal — Consolidated List — Senegal's national sanctions and designated-persons register.
- NDARINFO.COM Senegal — adverse-media signals — leading Senegalese investigative journalism outlet for negative-news screening.
- GIABA — Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa — West Africa's FATF-style regional body watchlist covering 16 ECOWAS member states.
- CENTIF — enforcement register — Senegal's FIU designations and enforcement actions.
- AU Commission — African Union sanctions registry — continental political and economic sanctions decisions.
- UN Security Council — Consolidated Sanctions List — global multilateral sanctions transposed by CENTIF.
- OFAC SDN — Specially Designated Nationals List — US Treasury designations with West Africa coverage.
- FATF — high-risk and monitored jurisdictions list — global regulatory-risk context.
- Interpol Africa — criminal-notice registry — cross-border wanted persons and criminal diffusions.
- Basel AML Index — Senegal risk signals — country-level risk context updated annually.
- ECOWAS — regional enforcement and designations — Economic Community of West African States cross-border enforcement registry.
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.
Senegal does not currently expose a public government consumer API open to third-party integrators — no public database validation API exists for the Direction de l'Automatisation du Fichier's CNIB register.
- The OCR + biometric + AML stack is the authoritative CENTIF- and CDP-compliant path today: the CNIB document number is OCR-parsed from the biometric card, the face is matched against the document portrait, and the AML stage screens the extracted name against every Senegalese regulatory and GIABA regional watchlist.
- For phone, email, and address enrichment, pair the session with global Database Validation services that already work in Senegal today.
- A direct DAF authoritative-source lookup ships as CENTIF- and CDP-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 Senegal document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Senegal.
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Common questions about Senegal.
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