Identity verification
built for Niger 
Nigerien National ID Card and Passport on one session, screened against GIABA West Africa regional watchlists and global sanctions, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Niger.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Nigerien identity fraud: synthetic-ID and deepfake attacks targeting BCEAO-supervised mobile-money operators in a market where digital financial services are the primary access point for millions of unbanked users, CNI template forgery and duplicate civil-registration issues during the biometric rollout, and AML pressure from GIABA-tracked Sahel terror-financing networks (JNIM, ISGS) under UN Security Council and OFAC designations. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- WAEMU Uniform Law No. 2016-32 on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (applicable in Niger)
- BCEAO Instruction No. 01/2006/SP on electronic money
- WAEMU AML/CFT directives applicable to BCEAO-supervised institutions
- GIABA 40 recommendations (FATF-style regional body for West Africa)
- ECOWAS financial crime cooperation framework
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Niger.
BCEAO
Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, regional central bank for the WAEMU zone including Niger. Supervises banks and payment institutions; issues authorisation and prudential standards for digital financial services.
CENTIF Niger
Cellule Nationale de Traitement des Informations Financières, Niger's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers the WAEMU Uniform Law on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing; receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.
ARTP
Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications et de la Poste, telecom and postal regulator. Oversees mobile-money licensing in coordination with BCEAO; governs SIM-based identity verification requirements.
CREMPF
Conseil Régional de l'Épargne Publique et des Marchés Financiers, WAEMU regional capital-markets regulator supervising securities dealers and investment funds operating in Niger.
GIABA
Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa, the FATF-style regional body for West Africa. Niger is a member; GIABA mutual evaluations and typologies apply to BCEAO-supervised institutions.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Nigerien biometric CNI, 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.
- Carte Nationale d'Identité biométrique (CNI)
- Passeport Biométrique, NFC chip read
- Permis de Conduire · Titre de Séjour
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 Niger watchlists:
- CENTIF Niger, FIU designations, national AML and counter-terrorism financing designations under the WAEMU Uniform Law.
- National Assembly of Niger, 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), JNIM, and ISGS Sahel designations affecting Niger.
- OFAC SDN List, West Africa and Sahel, US Treasury asset-freeze measures targeting terror-financing networks in the Sahel.
- EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List, Mali/Sahel sanctions regime measures with Niger relevance.
- ECOWAS sanctions measures, post-2023 transition monitoring and travel-ban framework.
- Basel AML Index, Niger country-risk score and high-risk indicators.
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.
Cross-check the identity at scale.
- There is no public government database validation API for Niger currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the Commission Nationale d'Etat Civil does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
The OCR + biometric + AML stack is the authoritative BCEAO- and CENTIF-compliant path today: the national identification number is OCR-parsed from the biometric CNI, the face is matched against the portrait, and the AML stage screens the extracted name against every Nigerien and GIABA regional watchlist. Enterprise customers can talk to sales about registry-linkage options as BCEAO-authorised data partners onboard.
Cross-check the identity at scale , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Niger document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Niger.
Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.
Common questions about Niger.
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 Nigerien regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?
Two bodies govern every Nigerien identity-verification flow:
- BCEAO (Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest), regional central bank supervising banks and payment institutions across the WAEMU zone including Niger. BCEAO-licensed entities must perform customer due diligence on onboarding under WAEMU AML/CFT directives.
- CENTIF Niger, Niger's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers the WAEMU Uniform Law No. 2016-32 on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing and receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.
Niger is also subject to GIABA mutual evaluation standards and evolving ECOWAS monitoring post-2023. Didit covers all in a single POST /v3/session/ workflow.
Does Didit screen against GIABA West Africa and Sahel sanctions watchlists?
Yes, on every AML Screening call.
- Didit screens against 1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists.
- Plus Niger-specific and regional lists: CENTIF Niger FIU designations, GIABA regional entities, and UN Security Council Consolidated List including Sahel JNIM and ISGS designations.
- AML Screening costs
$0.20per check; Ongoing AML monitoring costs$0.07 per user / yearand re-checks daily, what BCEAO- and CENTIF-obliged institutions need for continuous monitoring.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Niger?
5 minutes to a working sandbox, a weekend to a production flow.
- Sign up at
business.didit.me, grab an API key, callPOST /v3/session/with aworkflow_idthat wires ID Verification + Active Liveness + Face Match + AML, done. - AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at
docs.didit.me/integration/integration-promptinto 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 Niger stack at zero cost.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.