Identity verification
built for 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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How identity verification works in Eritrea.
- 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
Who supervises identity verification in Eritrea.
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.
Four modules. One verification.
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.
- National Identity Card
- Passport — MRZ-parsed
- Driver's Licence · Residence Permit
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 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.
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 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.
Bind every check to one audited session — see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Eritrea document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Eritrea.
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Common questions about Eritrea.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
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