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Identity verification
built for Mauritania Flag of Mauritania

Mauritanian National Identity Card and Passport on one session, screened against GIABA regional watchlists and global sanctions, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Mauritania.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Mauritanian identity fraud: synthetic-ID and deepfake attacks targeting BCM-licensed mobile-money operators in a market with high mobile-phone penetration but limited legacy infrastructure, CNIB template forgery during the ANRPTS biometric rollout, and AML pressure from GIABA-tracked terror-financing networks active in the Sahel region under FATF and UN Security Council designations. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Law No. 2018-013 on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing
  • Banking Act (Loi 2007-025 of 2007), Banque Centrale de Mauritanie
  • GIABA 40 recommendations (FATF-style regional body for West Africa)
  • UN Security Council Resolution 1373 (counter-terrorism financing)
  • FATF 40 recommendations
  • ECOWAS financial crime cooperation framework
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Mauritania.

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

  • BCM

    Banque Centrale de Mauritanie, central bank and primary financial supervisor for banks, microfinance institutions, and mobile-money operators under the Banking Act (Loi 2007-025 of 2007).

  • CENTIF

    Cellule de Traitement des Informations Financières, Mauritania's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law No. 2018-013 on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing; receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.

  • ARSAM

    Agence de Régulation et de Surveillance des marchés des Assurances et de la Microfinance, regulates insurance and microfinance institutions; enforces AML compliance in the microfinance sector.

  • ANRPTS

    Agence Nationale du Registre des Populations et des Titres Sécurisés, national civil registry authority. Issues the biometric CNIB and passport; maintains the population register.

  • GIABA

    Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa, the FATF-style regional body for West Africa. Mauritania is a member; GIABA mutual evaluations and typologies apply to BCM-supervised institutions.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Mauritania 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.

  • Mauritanian biometric CNIB, Passeport Biométrique (with NFC chip read), Permis de Conduire, and Titre de Séjour.
  • Returns: full name, national identification number, date of birth, place of birth, nationality, expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Carte Nationale d'Identité Biométrique (CNIB)
  • Passeport Biométrique, NFC chip read
  • Permis de Conduire · Titre 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 Mauritania watchlists:

  • CENTIF, Mauritanian FIU designations, national AML and counter-terrorism financing designations under Law No. 2018-013.
  • Banque Centrale de Mauritanie, enforcement actions, regulatory sanctions on banks and payment institutions.
  • National Assembly of Mauritania, PEP register, senior legislative-branch Politically Exposed Persons.
  • GIABA, West Africa regional designated entities, Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa typologies and named persons.
  • UN Security Council, Consolidated List, ISIL/Al-Qaida (1267/1989/2253) and Sahel-linked terror designations.
  • OFAC SDN List, West Africa and Sahel designations, US Treasury asset-freeze measures targeting terror-financing networks active in the Sahel.
  • EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List, Sahel/Mali sanctions regime measures with Mauritanian relevance.
  • FATF Global Network, Mauritania mutual evaluation, high-risk indicators from the FATF assessment process.

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

Cross-check the identity at scale.

  • There is no public government database validation API for Mauritania currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the ANRPTS population register does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.

The OCR + biometric + AML stack is the authoritative BCM- and CENTIF-compliant path today: the national identification number is OCR-parsed from the CNIB, the face is matched against the portrait, and the AML stage screens the extracted name against every Mauritanian and GIABA regional watchlist. Enterprise customers can talk to sales about registry-linkage options as BCM-authorised data partners onboard.

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Stage 04Cross-check the identity at scale

Cross-check the identity at scale , see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Mauritania 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 Mauritania.

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 Mauritania

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 Mauritania.

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:

  • 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, 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, 48+ languages.
  • Flexibility. One API composes 25+ modules across KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening.
  • AI-era fraud. 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session.
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 AML Screening, $0.10 per liveness, $0.05 per face match.

Pay-as-you-go, no minimums, no overage surprises.

Which Mauritanian regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?

Two bodies govern every Mauritanian identity-verification flow:

  • Banque Centrale de Mauritanie (BCM), primary financial supervisor for banks, microfinance institutions, and mobile-money operators under the Banking Act (Loi 2007-025 of 2007). BCM-licensed entities must perform customer due diligence on onboarding.
  • CENTIF, Mauritania's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers Law No. 2018-013 on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing and receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.

Mauritania is also subject to GIABA mutual evaluation standards, the FATF-style regional body for West Africa. Didit covers all requirements in a single POST /v3/session/ workflow.

Does Didit screen against GIABA West Africa regional watchlists?

Yes, on every AML Screening call.

  • Didit screens against 1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists.
  • Plus Mauritania-specific and GIABA regional lists: CENTIF FIU designations under Law No. 2018-013, GIABA regional designated entities, and UN Security Council Sahel-linked designations.
  • AML Screening costs $0.20 per check; Ongoing AML monitoring costs $0.07 per user / year and re-checks daily, what BCM- and CENTIF-obliged institutions need for continuous monitoring.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Mauritania?

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, or any AI coding 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 Mauritania stack at zero cost.

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