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Identity verification
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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.

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