Identity verification
built for Djibouti 
National ID Card and Passport on one session, screened against Djiboutian regulatory watchlists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.




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How identity verification works in Djibouti.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Djiboutian identity fraud: port and logistics corridor fraud exploiting the high transshipment volumes through the Port of Djibouti, cross-border identity document forgery across the porous borders with Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia, and AML pressure on the foreign-currency and remittance channels tied to the large expatriate military and logistics workforce. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Law 133/AN/11/6ème L on AML/CFT (Djibouti, 2011)
- Banque Centrale de Djibouti KYC and due-diligence directives
- MENAFATF mutual-evaluation framework
- ESAAMLG regional AML/CFT standards
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Djibouti.
BCD
Banque Centrale de Djibouti, central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, financial institutions, and money-transfer operators in Djibouti.
CRF
Cellule de Renseignement Financier, Djibouti's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives and analyses Suspicious Transaction Reports under Law 133/AN/11/6ème L on AML/CFT.
MENAFATF
Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force, the FATF-style regional body to which Djibouti is associated. Mutual evaluations and regional standards guide AML/CFT compliance.
ESAAMLG
Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group, regional body that also engages Djibouti on its East Africa trade and remittance exposures.
ONARS
Office National des Réfugiés et Apatrides, national refugee and stateless-person authority. Administers identity documentation for Djibouti's large refugee and stateless populations.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Carte d'Identité Nationale, Passport (MRZ-parsed), Driver's Licence, and Carte de Résidence for foreign residents.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
- Carte d'Identité Nationale
- Passport, MRZ-parsed
- Driver's Licence · Carte de Résidence
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 Djibouti watchlists:
- Djibouti Presidential Police, PEP Level 1 senior security and executive officials.
- UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions, Horn of Africa designations including Somalia and Eritrea nexus entries affecting Djibouti transshipment corridors.
- OFAC SDN List, designations with Djibouti and Horn of Africa nexus.
- MENAFATF, Middle East and North Africa FATF-style regional body watchlist.
- ESAAMLG, Eastern and Southern Africa AML Group regional watchlist.
- FATF, Financial Action Task Force global standards and monitoring watchlist.
- Interpol East Africa, international law enforcement cooperation register.
- Basel AML Index, country-risk scoring for Djibouti.
- EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List, designations covering the Horn of Africa.
- African Development Bank, debarment and sanctions register.
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 Djibouti currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the Ministry of Interior 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 Djibouti document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Djibouti.
Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.
Common questions about Djibouti.
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.
- Access. Sandbox in one click, self-serve from day one, production keys on signup.
- Developer experience. Public docs, Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, and native SDKs for Web, iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter. Integrate in 5 minutes.
- User experience. Highest pass rates in the market, sub-2-second inference, country-specialised capture flows, 48+ languages.
- Flexibility. One
/v3/API composes 25+ modules across KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. - AI-era fraud. 200+ real-time fraud signals, deepfake, injection, synthetic-ID, document forgery, face-morph, device intelligence, replay.
Common in fintech and crypto, the same architecture fits logistics, ports, and any high-transaction-volume 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, $0.20 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 Djiboutian regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?
Two primary bodies sit on top of every Djiboutian identity-verification flow:
- Banque Centrale de Djibouti (BCD), central bank and supervisor. Sets KYC and due-diligence requirements for banks and money-transfer operators.
- CRF (Cellule de Renseignement Financier), Djibouti's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law 133/AN/11/6ème L on AML/CFT (2011) and receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.
Djibouti's AML/CFT framework is assessed under both MENAFATF and ESAAMLG, any regulated entity onboarding Djiboutian users must also screen against UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions and OFAC SDN lists.
Didit ships the hosted flow + audit log + watchlist coverage to satisfy all of the above, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.
How does Didit handle the diverse document types in Djibouti's mixed foreign-national population?
All common document types, Djiboutian and foreign, route through the same hosted flow.
Djibouti's population includes a substantial foreign-military, logistics, and refugee contingent, each presenting different document types:
- Djiboutian Carte d'Identité Nationale and Passport, OCR + MRZ-parsed.
- Cartes de Résidence for foreign nationals including military personnel and logistics workers.
- UNHCR Titres de Voyage for the refugee population from Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.
- Foreign national passports, any ICAO 9303-compliant document, MRZ-parsed and biometric-verified.
All routes through the same POST /v3/session/ endpoint, one workflow, one JSON report, one audit trail.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Djibouti?
5 minutes to a working sandbox, a weekend to a production flow.
- Sign up at
business.didit.me, grab an API key, callPOST /v3/session/with aworkflow_idthat wires ID Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match + AML, done. - AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at
docs.didit.me/integration/integration-promptinto Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Devin, or Replit Agent. - 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 Djibouti stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
Which language does the hosted verification flow use for Djiboutian users?
French and Arabic, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Djiboutian users land on French by default (the primary administrative and commercial language), with Arabic available for government and cross-border flows.
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 Djibouti verification cost end-to-end?
Per-module public pricing, pay only for what runs on the session:
- ID Verification,
$0.15per document check. - Passive Liveness,
$0.10. Active Liveness,$0.15. - Face Match 1:1,
$0.05. Face Search 1:N, free. - AML Screening,
$0.20per 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 Djibouti surcharge. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.