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.
Trusted by 2,000+ organizations worldwide.
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.
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Common questions about Niger.
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