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Middle East & Africa

Identity verification
built for Eritrea Flag of Eritrea

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

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Eritrea.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Eritrean identity fraud: diaspora remittance fraud targeting the large expatriate community in Europe, North America, and the Gulf, National Identity Card forgery in cross-border corridors with Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Sudan, and AML exposure on remittance channels subject to international monitoring. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Proclamation 17/1991, Bank of Eritrea Establishment (as amended)
  • Money Laundering Proclamation 165/2012 (Eritrea)
  • Counter Terrorism Proclamation 162/2011 (Eritrea)
  • ESAAMLG mutual-evaluation framework
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Eritrea.

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

    Bank of Eritrea, central bank and sole supervisor for the Eritrean banking sector. Sets KYC and AML requirements for licensed banks and money-transfer operators.

  • MOFND

    Ministry of Finance and National Development, oversees fiscal policy and financial-sector regulation. Co-ordinator of AML/CFT implementation alongside the Bank of Eritrea.

  • ESAAMLG

    Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group, the FATF-style regional body relevant to Eritrea. Mutual evaluations and regional standards inform Eritrean AML/CFT compliance.

  • FATF

    Financial Action Task Force, global AML/CFT standard-setter. Eritrea's compliance with FATF 40 Recommendations is subject to regional ESAAMLG monitoring.

  • MLG

    Ministry of Local Government, administers civil registration and issues the National Identity Card. Primary identity-document authority for Eritrean citizens.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Eritrea 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.

  • National Identity Card, Passport (MRZ-parsed), Driver's Licence, and Residence Permit for foreign residents.
  • Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • National Identity Card
  • Passport, MRZ-parsed
  • Driver's Licence · Residence Permit
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 Eritrea watchlists:

  • National Assembly of Eritrea, PEP Level 1 legislative officials.
  • Eritrean Liberation Front, PEP Level 3 political-movement officials.
  • Asmara and Eritrea, SIE adverse-media and business-intelligence register.
  • UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions, individual designations with Eritrea nexus.
  • OFAC SDN List, designations linked to Horn of Africa conflict networks.
  • 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 (elevated tier for Eritrea).
  • EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List, designations covering Eritrea.

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 Eritrea currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the Ministry of Local Government 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 Eritrea 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 Eritrea.

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 Eritrea.

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 marketplaces, 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, $0.20 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 Eritrean regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Two primary bodies sit on top of every Eritrean identity-verification flow:

  • Bank of Eritrea (BoE), central bank and sole banking supervisor. Sets KYC and AML requirements for licensed banks and money-transfer operators.
  • Ministry of Finance and National Development (MOFND), co-ordinates AML/CFT implementation under the Money Laundering Proclamation 165/2012 and Counter Terrorism Proclamation 162/2011.

Eritrea participates in ESAAMLG (Eastern and Southern Africa AML Group) regional standards. Cross-border flows 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 verification for the Eritrean diaspora?

The diaspora flow routes through the same hosted session as in-country users, no separate integration needed.

The Eritrean diaspora, predominantly in the US, Europe, Israel, and the Gulf, presents Eritrean passports and, in some cases, Eritrean national ID cards as their primary identity documents. Didit:

  • Captures and OCR-parses Eritrean passports (MRZ) and national ID cards on any device, globally.
  • Runs Active Liveness + Face Match to anchor the session to a live biometric regardless of where the user is located.
  • Screens against 1,300+ global lists including every diaspora-relevant sanctions list.

The same POST /v3/session/ endpoint and workflow handles both in-country and diaspora users, no country-specific configuration needed.

How long does it take to integrate Didit in Eritrea?

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, 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 Eritrea stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.

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

Tigrinya, Arabic, and English, auto-detected from the user's browser / device locale. The hosted UI ships in 48+ languages; Eritrean users land on Tigrinya by default (the primary working language of the state), with Arabic and English available for multilingual teams.

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 Eritrea 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 Eritrea 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.

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