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Middle East & Africa

Identity verification
built for Cameroon Flag of Cameroon

National Identity Card and Passport on one session, screened against Cameroonian regulatory watchlists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Cameroon.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Cameroonian identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on mobile-money operators and the fast-growing fintech corridor, Carte Nationale d'Identité forgery across multiple format generations, and AML pressure on cross-border trade corridors with Nigeria, Chad, and the Central African Republic. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • AML/CFT Law 2003/004 (Cameroon)
  • CEMAC Regulation 01/03/CEMAC/UMAC/CM on AML/CFT
  • COBAC Regulation R-2005/01 on KYC obligations
  • GABAC mutual-evaluation framework
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Cameroon.

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

    Banking Commission for Central Africa (Commission Bancaire de l'Afrique Centrale), prudential supervisor for banks and financial institutions operating in Cameroon under the CEMAC banking framework.

  • BEAC

    Bank of Central African States (Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale), common central bank for the six CEMAC nations. Sets monetary policy and issues the CFA franc for Central Africa including Cameroon.

  • ANIF

    Agence Nationale d'Investigation Financière, Cameroon's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives and processes Suspicious Transaction Reports under AML/CFT Law 2003/004 and CEMAC AML/CFT regulations.

  • GABAC

    Groupe d'Action contre le Blanchiment d'Argent en Afrique Centrale, the FATF-style regional body for Central Africa. Cameroon is a founding member; GABAC mutual evaluations set the compliance baseline.

  • MINAT

    Ministry of Territorial Administration, issues the Carte Nationale d'Identité and oversees civil registration. Primary authority for the identity document ecosystem in Cameroon.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Cameroon 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.

  • Carte Nationale d'Identité, Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), Driver's Licence, and Carte de Séjour for foreign residents.
  • Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Carte Nationale d'Identité
  • Passport, chip read on e-Passport
  • Driver's Licence · Carte 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 Cameroon watchlists:

  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Cameroon), PEP Level 2 senior diplomatic officials.
  • Constitutional Council (Cameroon), PEP Level 2 constitutional-body officials.
  • Cameroon People's Democratic Movement, PEP Level 2 ruling-party officials.
  • National Elections Agency, PEP Level 2 electoral authority officials.
  • Ministry of Defence, PEP Level 2 senior defense officials.
  • Ministry of Interior, PEP Level 2 senior interior officials.
  • The Cameroon High Commission South Africa, PEP Level 1 diplomatic mission officials.
  • Business in Cameroon, Warnings and adverse-media register for Cameroonian entities.
  • GABAC, Groupe d'Action contre le Blanchiment en Afrique Centrale regional watchlist.
  • UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions, global designations including Central Africa arms embargo entries.
  • OFAC SDN List, US Treasury Specially Designated Nationals with Cameroon nexus.
  • Interpol Central Africa, international law enforcement cooperation register.

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 Cameroon currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the DGSN/MINAT civil 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 Cameroon 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 Cameroon.

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
FAQ

Common questions about Cameroon.

What does Didit ship?

Didit is the infrastructure layer for identity and fraud. One Application Programming Interface (API), 25+ composable modules across four product lines:

  • User Verification (KYC, know your customer), Identity Document Verification, liveness, face match, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) screening, Internet Protocol (IP) analysis. $0.33 per full bundle.
  • Business Verification (KYB, know your business), registry, Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO), officers, entity AML, plus a linked KYC session per UBO.
  • Transaction Monitoring, real-time rule engine, case management, Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) workflow.
  • Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction), on-chain wallet risk at $0.15 per check, or bring your own screening provider and run it inside Didit.

Compose any module into a workflow with the visual no-code builder, ship in 5 minutes, 500 verifications free every month, forever.

How is Didit different from a single-product Know Your Customer (KYC) vendor?

Most identity vendors sell one slice, a KYC check, an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) list, a wallet screen. Didit ships the infrastructure underneath all of them, and the gap shows up on six axes:

  • Pricing. Public price on every module, $0.33 for a full KYC, 500 verifications free every month, no minimums, no contracts. Single-product vendors hide six-figure minimums behind a sales call.
  • Access. Sandbox in one click, self-serve from day one, production keys on signup. Single-product vendors gate the sandbox behind a contract, months to evaluate.
  • Developer experience. Public docs, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Claude Code and Cursor, and native Software Development Kits (SDKs) for Web, iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter. Integrate in 5 minutes with an AI agent or in a working afternoon by hand.
  • User experience. Highest pass rates in the market, sub-2-second end-to-end inference, country-specialised capture flows, 48+ languages out of the box.
  • Flexibility. One /v3/ Application Programming Interface (API) composes 25+ modules across KYC, Know Your Business (KYB), Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction). A KYB session spawns a linked KYC for every Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO); a flagged transaction spawns a step-up KYC remediation, same session, same webhook contract, same audit trail. Single-product vendors sell one shape of KYC and stop there.
  • AI-era fraud. 200+ real-time fraud signals scored on every session, deepfake, injection, synthetic-ID, document forgery, face-morph, device intelligence, replay. Single-product vendors treat deepfake and injection detection as roadmap items, not defaults.

Common in fintech and crypto, the same architecture fits marketplaces, iGaming, mobility, and any vertical where you need to know who someone is and what they are doing.

What does it cost? Is anything actually free?

500 verifications free every month, forever, on every account. No credit card. No sales call. No expiry.

Above the free tier, every module has a public per-success price on didit.me/pricing, $0.33 per full KYC bundle, $0.15 per Identity Document Verification, $0.15 per Wallet Screening, $0.20 per Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Screening, $0.10 per liveness, $0.05 per face match, $0.03 per Internet Protocol (IP) analysis.

Pay-as-you-go, no minimums, no overage surprises. Volume discounts kick in automatically as you grow.

Which Cameroonian regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Three sit on top of every Cameroonian identity-verification flow:

  • COBAC (Commission Bancaire de l'Afrique Centrale), prudential supervisor for banks and financial institutions in Cameroon under the CEMAC banking framework. Sets KYC obligations via COBAC Regulation R-2005/01.
  • ANIF (Agence Nationale d'Investigation Financière), Cameroon's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Transaction Reports under AML/CFT Law 2003/004 and CEMAC Regulation 01/03/CEMAC/UMAC/CM.
  • GABAC, the FATF-style regional body for Central Africa. Mutual evaluations set the compliance baseline for every Cameroonian regulated entity.

Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all three at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.

Which Cameroonian watchlists does the AML stage screen against?

Every named Cameroonian regulatory body + adverse-media signal, on top of the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media sources:

  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Constitutional Council, National Elections Agency, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Interior (PEP Level 2).
  • Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (PEP Level 2 ruling-party officials).
  • The Cameroon High Commission South Africa (PEP Level 1).
  • Business in Cameroon, Warnings and adverse-media register.
  • GABAC, Central Africa regional AML/CFT watchlist.

The full list is documented at docs.didit.me/core-technology/aml-screening/watchlist-database-aml-screening. Turn on ongoing monitoring ($0.07 per user / year) for the periodic-review obligation ANIF expects.

How long does it take to integrate Didit in Cameroon?

5 minutes to a working sandbox, a weekend to a production flow.

  • Sign up at business.didit.me, grab an API key, call POST /v3/session/ with a workflow_id that wires ID Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match + AML, done.
  • AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at docs.didit.me/integration/integration-prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Devin, Aider, or Replit Agent. The agent provisions the application, builds the workflow, wires the webhook, and runs a smoke test.
  • Five SDKs share the same session model: Web, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter.

The first 500 verifications every month are free, forever, pilot the full Cameroon stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

Which language does the hosted verification flow use for Cameroonian users?

French and English, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Cameroonian users land on French by default (the majority administrative language), with English available for Anglophone regions.

The document-recognition layer is decoupled from the UI layer, capture works in any language, and the admin console can be set independently to whichever language your compliance team prefers.

What does the Cameroon verification cost end-to-end?

Per-module public pricing, pay only for what runs on the session:

  • ID Verification, $0.15 per document check.
  • Passive Liveness, $0.10. Active Liveness, $0.15.
  • Face Match 1:1, $0.05. Face Search 1:N, free.
  • AML Screening, $0.20 per check. Ongoing AML, $0.07 per user / year.

The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Cameroon surcharge. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card. Volume discounts auto-apply above the free tier; Enterprise adds a custom Master Services Agreement (MSA) and data-residency choice.

Infrastructure for identity and fraud.

One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.

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