Identity verification
built for Somalia 
National ID Card and Passport on one session, screened against Somali regulatory and UN sanctions watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Somalia.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Somali identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on the mobile-money platforms that dominate the formal economy, document forgery given the extended period of governmental disruption that produced multiple overlapping ID systems across Somaliland, Puntland, and the Federal Government, and AML exposure on remittance channels subject to UN Security Council sanctions and OFAC SDN designations. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Financing of Terrorism Law (Somalia, 2016)
- Central Bank of Somalia Act 2011 (as amended)
- FATF Increased Monitoring framework (Somalia grey-list obligations)
- UN Security Council Sanctions Regime (UNSCR 733/1992 — Somalia arms embargo and successors)
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Somalia.
CBS
Central Bank of Somalia — re-established monetary authority and banking supervisor. Sets KYC, AML, and payment-system requirements for licensed banks and mobile-money operators.
FRC Somalia
Financial Reporting Centre Somalia — the Financial Intelligence Unit under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Financing of Terrorism Law. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports and coordinates with international partners.
NAMLC
National Anti-Money Laundering Committee Somalia — the inter-ministerial body coordinating AML/CFT policy. Issues Targeted Financial Sanctions (TFS) lists used in Somali regulated-entity screening.
FATF
Financial Action Task Force — Somalia is on the FATF grey list (under Increased Monitoring). All regulated entities operating in Somalia must apply enhanced due diligence per FATF recommendation 19.
UN Security Council
Somalia is subject to UN Security Council arms embargo (UNSCR 733/1992 and successors) and individual designations. Mandatory screening for any Somali financial onboarding.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Somali National ID Card, Passport (MRZ-parsed), Driver's Licence, Somaliland Laissez-Passer, and UNHCR refugee documents.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
- Somali National ID Card
- Passport — MRZ-parsed
- Driver's Licence · Somaliland travel document
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 Somalia watchlists:
- House of Representatives of Somalia — PEP Level 1 legislative officials.
- NAMLC Targeted Financial Sanctions List — Sanctions designations issued by Somalia's National Anti-Money Laundering Committee.
- SONNA (Wakaaladda Wararka Qaranka Soomaaliyeed) — Warnings and adverse-media register from the Somali National News Agency.
- UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions — Somalia arms embargo and individual designations (UNSCR 733/1992 and successors), including al-Shabaab-linked entries.
- OFAC SDN List — Somalia-nexus designations including al-Shabaab-linked entities and financiers.
- FATF Increased Monitoring — grey-list obligations requiring enhanced due diligence on Somalia-connected transactions.
- ESAAMLG — Eastern and Southern Africa AML Group regional watchlist.
- Interpol East Africa — international law enforcement cooperation register.
- Basel AML Index — Somalia is in the high-risk tier; country-risk score applied.
- EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List — designations covering Somalia.
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.
Bind every check to one audited session.
- There is no public government database validation API for Somalia currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the Federal Government civil registry does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Bind every check to one audited session — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Somalia document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Somalia.
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Common questions about Somalia.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
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