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

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Guinea.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Guinean identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks on the fast-growing mobile-money operators and digital-banking platforms, Carte Nationale d'Identité forgery amid the ongoing civil-registry modernisation programme, and AML pressure on the mining-sector financial flows that pass through Conakry's banking system. 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 L/2012/N°01 (Guinea, 2012)
  • BCRG Instruction on KYC and customer due diligence for banks and EMIs
  • GIABA mutual-evaluation framework
  • ECOWAS AML/CFT regional directives
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Guinea.

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

  • BCRG

    Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée — central bank and supervisor for banks, microfinance institutions, and mobile-money operators. Issues KYC and AML instructions binding on all licensed institutions.

  • CENTIF

    Cellule Nationale de Traitement des Informations Financières — Guinea's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives and analyses Suspicious Transaction Reports under AML/CFT Law L/2012/N°01.

  • GIABA

    Groupe Intergouvernemental d'Action contre le Blanchiment d'Argent en Afrique de l'Ouest — the FATF-style regional body for West Africa. Guinea is a full GIABA member; mutual evaluations set the AML/CFT compliance baseline.

  • ECOWAS

    Economic Community of West African States — regional bloc of which Guinea is a full member. ECOWAS AML/CFT directives and cross-border payments frameworks apply to Guinean regulated entities.

  • DGPI

    Direction Générale de la Population et de l'Immigration — issues the Carte Nationale d'Identité and manages civil registration and immigration. Primary identity-document authority for Guinean citizens.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Guinea database cross-check — composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
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01 · ID

Capture and read the ID.

Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • Carte Nationale d'Identité, Passport (MRZ-parsed), Driver's Licence, and Carte de Séjour for foreign nationals.
  • 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 — MRZ-parsed
  • 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 Guinea watchlists:

  • National Assembly of Guinea — PEP Level 1 legislative officials.
  • EAGLE Network (Guinea) — SIP adverse-media register for wildlife and governance enforcement actions.
  • CENTIF Guinea — STR enforcement register and financial-crime watchlist.
  • GIABA — West Africa FATF-style regional body watchlist covering Guinea and all ECOWAS member states.
  • FATF — Financial Action Task Force global standards and monitoring watchlist.
  • ECOWAS — Economic Community of West African States regional designations.
  • Interpol West Africa — international law enforcement cooperation register.
  • Basel AML Index — Guinea country-risk scoring.
  • UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions — global designations.
  • OFAC SDN List — global designations including West Africa resource-sector nexus.

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 Guinea currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the DGPI 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 Guinea 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 Guinea.

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.
aml-screening

AML lists screened in Guinea

1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus the country's regulatory watchlists and PEP registries.

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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 Guinea.

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